While conservative activists praise these efforts as a return to meritocracy, left-leaning activists believe these actions ...

A historical monument commemorating the last school for Native Americans in South Carolina prior to public school integration ...

Though Martin Luther King Jr. Day was officially recognized on Monday, students, staff and community members gathered in ...

The Alabama African American Civil Rights Heritage Consortium is working to expand tourism to historic civil rights churches in Alabama that played a big role in the movement.

On Friday, friends and family of the youngest of the 13 original Freedom Riders gathered at the historic Ebenezer Baptist ...

Terms like “environmental racism” or “environmental justice” were not yet part of the national lexicon when the Rev. Martin ...

President Trump revoked a 1965 rule that prohibited federal contractors from discriminating against employees or job ...

The Alabama African American Civil Rights Heritage Sites Consortium hosted a two-day event to teach and empower communities ...

With a stroke of a pen, President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order on Tuesday that overturned government ...

Ahead of the spring semester, nine students traveled to Washington, D.C., and Jackson, Mississippi, as part of a community-engaged learning trip led by the Swearer Center and in partnership with ...

The NCRM said that the museum will conduct a "thorough and scholarly review" of any documents that contain unredacted details ...

The following five stories are a great place to start if you’re interested in learning about historic places, people and events that are tied to Shreveport and connected to the American ...