Maxine Smith, Dorothy Truitt Walk and Cornelia Crenshaw were civil rights leaders who challenged injustice and made a difference for all Memphians.

Sen. Ted Cruz has likened vouchers to “the civil rights issue of our time." But critics note they were used in the 1950s to fight integrated schools.

As the school voucher debate unfolds this legislative session, both sides have attempted to pick up the mantle of the 20th-century Civil Rights Movement ... inversion of the political dynamics ...

Fears of Civil War in South Sudan Stem From ... angering rebel commander Kiir and John Garang, the movement's now-deceased political figurehead. Fighting among southerners briefly undermined ...

From the column: "DEI is often marketed as a new chapter in the Civil Rights Movement. In reality, it flouts nearly ...

I remember THEN! “Were you better off then than you are now?” ...

It was very difficult to keep going when all our efforts seemed in vain,” Rosa Parks described her work in the 1940s and ...

This weekend marks a return to one of enduring touchstones of the civil rights movement. It is the 60th ... the middle on either side of Trump’s political manifesto. But the public seems simply ...

Almost to a person, our new allies made their careers within that context and, as best I can recall, none of them raised a moral or political objection to the largely successful rollback of the ...

The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...