Black History Month is an annual observance centered on celebrating the history, heritage, cultural influence and social ...

Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing,” a song often called the Black national anthem, was sung before the Super Bowl for the fifth year ...

The words of these Black poets cut to the core of the human experience and the realities of being Black in America ...

Music clearly played a starring role in the civil rights movement. People marched to freedom songs while ... of 1965 in the ...

Music clearly played a starring role in the civil rights movement. People marched to freedom ... violent attacks on civil rights demonstrators during the march from Selma to Montgomery.

Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, coordinated, and directed various community and nonprofit organizations. She has conducted in-depth research on social and economic ...

Wing Tek Lum is a Honolulu businessman and poet. His collection of poems, The Oldtimers, was published earlier this year by Bamboo Ridge Press. The poem is reprinted with permission of the author.

Attorneys in the department’s Civil Rights Division were ordered not to file any new complaints, amicus briefs or other certain court papers “until further notice,” one of the memos said. Another memo ...

The Justice Department ordered its civil rights division to pause ongoing litigation and not engage in any new cases, according to The Washington Post, issuing the order Wednesday as Republican ...

The seal of the United States Department of Justice is seen on the building exterior of the United States Attorney's Office of the Southern District of New York in Manhattan, New York City ...

Then-President Lyndon B Johnson shakes the hand of Dr, Martin Luther King Jr. at the signing of the Civil Rights Act while officials look on, Washington D.C. Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images ...