His remarkable life included signing background vocals for musical groups such as Ike and Tina Turner and serving as an usher ...

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery march—one of the most defining moments in the U.S. civil ...

President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting the Smithsonian Institution, mandating the removal of what he calls ...

The Asco art collective emerged at the height of the Chicano civil rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s. When filmmaker ...

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

Without Permission” chronicles the story of a 1970s Chicano art group named “asco.” Their name translates to “nausea” or ...

And one could consider the protesters’ actions through the lens of civil disobedience, recalling the 1960s civil rights movement, which also involved minor lawbreaking and was organized by nonprofits, ...

Or is it to highlight the human faults of a civil rights icon at a time when Trump’s administration is moving to purge the government of diversity initiatives rooted in the civil rights movement that ...

Ligon’s paintings and sculptures examine cultural and social identity through found sources—literature, Afrocentric coloring books, photographs—to reveal the ways in which the history of slavery, the ...

The 24-day march from March 12 to April 5, 1930, ended with the defiance of the law after he made salt at Dandi marking the inauguration of the civil disobedience movement. Story continues below this ...

Third Ward has been called the cradle of the city’s civil rights movement because black college students sat ... the Houston Museum of Art and Culture, and Project Row Houses. It has been the home of ...