CHICAGO — Illinois will annually honor Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago whose 1955 murder galvanized the Civil Rights Movement and became a glaring example of failures in the justice ...

Danny Lyon was a student at the University of Chicago in the summer of 1962, when he photographed a sit-in on the campus. The sit-in was organized by current U.S. Senator and fellow University of ...

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a leader of the Civil Rights Movement, died at 84. Jackson was a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther ...

Lucille Berrien, a well-known welfare rights activist and the first Black woman to run for mayor in Milwaukee, was celebrated by family on Aug. 1.

The fight for American civil rights spanned decades, cities and states, from Topeka, Kansas to Memphis, Tennessee and from Atlanta, Georgia to Selma, Alabama and all the way to our nation’s capital in ...

This is an opinion. Fred Shuttlesworth deserves better than this. Birmingham deserves better. I took a documentary crew to Phillips High School not long ago — Phillips Academy now, but Phillips High ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about how we can advance opportunity in education. Oct 24, 2025, 01:23pm EDT Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down ...

"The civil rights movement was arguably the most important reform in American history. This book recounts the extraordinary and often bloody story of how tens of thousands of ordinary blacks overcame ...

Ella Baker built in the background. Though her work as a grassroots organizer helped strengthen the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), birth the civil rights movement ...

Peter Johnson watched the news from his civil rights office in Downtown Dallas on Wednesday, captivated by unexpected news about a friend who passed away decades ago. “I got pictures of me and Cesar ...