Eight Places You Need to Visit and Understand Chicago’s Black Freedom Struggle   Go to Montgomery, Alabama today and markers ...

On the 60th anniversary of Lyndon Johnson’s voting rights speech, we are reminded how government can address concerns with ...

Protest movements played a decisive role in shaping the history of our rebellion-born nation. In the 20th century alone, mass ...

Cheryl Johnson, who took charge of People for Community Recovery in 2010, just before her mother’s death, says MAGA can’t end ...

Broadway’s “Purpose,” by Tony-winning playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, tackles the legacy of the civil rights movement ...

Prior to the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, a group in Chicago filed a complaint against the CTA that ...

After Hazel came to Chicago — soon settling in Altgeld ... conditions on a number of fronts and was pivotal in a federal civil rights complaint that became an investigation and now a binding ...

While he lived in Chicago for most of his adult life ... His return to the South marked Jackson’s emergence as a leader in ...

Faced with a choice between trying to hold on to what they have amid continuously deteriorating circumstances, as the Knights ...

according to information compiled by the Movement Advancement Project, a think tank that supports L.G.B.T.Q. rights. Iowa put in place civil rights protections for transgender people in 2007 in a ...