"As the Court has explained, States possess 'no authority to override' Congress’s 'decision to subject state' officials 'to ...

Black History Month in February is celebrated by the Cherokee Nation as this year marks the 159th year of Cherokee Freedmen ...

Black politicians during the Reconstruction era played a critical role in the creation and development of the U.S. public ...

Discover the inspiring story of Isaac Myers, a pioneering Baltimore caulker and advocate for union rights, who fought for ...

I do hereby grant unconditional pardons to all United States persons for those offenses against the United States which such persons may have ...

Republican state attorneys general have declared their continued support for a landmark civil rights law that protects ...

Friday marks the 60th anniversary of the death of Malcolm X, a prominent Black American Muslim civil rights activist.

Martin Luther King Jr. wasn't born in Alabama, but his legacy and impact are felt throughout the state and in the heart of Birmingham. While at college in Boston, he met his wife, Coretta Scott King.

Democrats in both chambers have filed resolutions that celebrate and affirm former President Joe Biden’s pronouncement made on his way out the door that the Equal Rights Amendment is “the law of the ...

The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) is calling on President Trump to reinstate an education program designed to support ...

The authors say that the inclusion of birthright citizenship in the Constitution in 1868 has ramifications that apply in today's debate in Congress.

Belle da Costa Greene, the first director of the Morgan Library, was a Black woman who passed as white in the early 20th ...