Built in 1954, the A.G. Gaston Motel was a meeting place for civil rights leaders. It is a key site of the Birmingham Civil ...

February 18, 1965 – During a march in Marion, state troopers attack the demonstrators. State trooper James Bonard Fowler shoots and kills Jimmie Lee Jackson. Fowler was charged with murder in 2007 and ...

The acceptance of interracial marriage has traversed a long, rocky, and violent road. This is where we must start.

Thursday marked a monumental moment in American history as it was April 4, 1968 that Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed.

Allen Toussaint will be in the spotlight Tuesday when a postage stamp bearing the late musician's likeness is unveiled in ...

Veterans with the Montford Point Marine Association brought Black history alive for students at Tuckaseegee Elementary School ...

Dr King promised that “every penny” of his Nobel Peace Prize money would go towards the Civil Rights Movement. He kept his ...

I believe that everyone should be afforded (the) opportunity to be treated fairly and equally," said the city's safe and ...

One perk that may materialize from Elon Musk upending the federal bureaucracy is the downfall of the government’s obsessive ...

The movement was civil and voting rights for Black Americans, and the subject was Vivian. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called him the greatest preacher he had ever seen. President Barack Obama ...

Since 1976, every February has officially been designated as Black History Month. This February, stop by the library and give ...

In the dimly lit, subterranean galleries of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture, some of the ...