The death of Ruth Ann Butler sent shockwaves through the Upstate as political figures McMaster and White offer condolences to the civil rights historian.

Billy Jackson speaks with the Amsterdam News about his film “We Are Universal,” currently screening at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).

Iconic songs by Sam Cooke, Kim Weston, Public Enemy, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, Lauryn Hill, Kendrick Lamar and more depict the fight for civil rights.

Democrats’ multiracial coalition is in tatters. Mending it requires a new way of thinking about race and voting.

Discover the powerful legacy of Black Greek Letter Organizations and their pivotal role in shaping Black history.

Mississippi is steeped in Black history and culture, from Civil Rights sites that spurred national change to the delta -the ...

Music clearly played a starring role in the civil rights movement ... 100,000 raised a fist in the air as she sang. The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who introduced her as "Sister Kim Weston," called ...

noted how “Jesse Jackson once called the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Chicago boy brutally murdered in Mississippi, the Big Bang of the Civil Rights Movement. In the same way, the ...

African-American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr (1929 - 1968, centre) at the third march from Selma to ...