These faculty members are dedicated to continuing important conversations. The post 5 Women’s & Gender Studies Professors On ...

As two recent books show, free speech protections were forged a century ago by people who fought for the rights of activists.

After only three months on campus, My Sister's Keeper (MSK) is already making an impact through education, advocacy and ...

Milwaukee author Ebony Haynes says her latest book, Dear Black Girl: I See You, is dedicated to Black girls, “offering them ...

FILE - An Alabama state trooper swings a club at John Lewis, right foreground, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, to break up a civil rights voting march in Selma ...

Yet there seems to be little appetite for throwing the book ... and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee led sit-ins and other acts designed to provoke arrest, making the injustice of those ...

Since 2013, Triad Cultural Arts has worked to preserve an architecturally significant shotgun house as a symbol of African ...

A high-impact exhibition on the civil rights activist—who orchestrated the 1963 March on Washington—opens at the National ...

The civil rights era comes alive in these excellent, informative books for kids of all ages. From beautifully illustrated picture books to memoirs that depict the Jim Crow South to biographies of ...

Led by the Reverend Joseph Ellwanger of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, the group made phone calls and sent delegations to other ...

She advocated for women's rights by taking part in public gatherings and demonstrations, and tried to make the voices of Afghan women heard in the rest of the world. But with the Taliban slapping ...

This month marks the 60th anniversary of the historic Selma to Montgomery march, a pivotal moment in the fight for voting rights. The author, inspired by the civil rights movement, volunteered in ...