Critics often compare climate activists to a sanitized memory of the civil rights movement as “a purely peaceful movement” to argue that radical and confrontational tactics won’t win hearts ...

Through nonviolent protests and other forms of civil disobedience, the Civil Rights Movement was a decade’s long effort to make racial discrimination, disenfranchisement and inequality illegal ...

First of all, in name: Julie Buckner Armstrong, an English professor at the University of South Florida in Tampa who has written several books about the Civil Rights Movement, said it’s not fair ...

Many civil rights groups are part of the Movement for Black Lives network. But M4BL, as it’s known, largely plays a behind-the-scenes role. There is no formal president or executive director of ...

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - As President Donald Trump celebrates his first 100 days back in office, civil rights groups in Atlanta say a new movement is rising in response to his ...

A conversation about memory, movement-building and the sacred work of staying connected. In this stirring episode of Complexified, we sit down with scholar, poet and community elder Rachel Harding ...

Peniel Joseph writes about this pivotal year in his new book, "Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights ...

Today is the first day of February and the first day of Black History Month, so we’re taking a look back at a powerful but not widely known figure in the Civil Rights Movement who worked behind ...

Civil Rights Movement Freedom Riders Urge Younger Activists to Get Out the Vote ATLANTA (AP) — Charles Person, one of the Civil Rights Movement's original Freedom Riders, echoed organizers ...