The family of Martin Luther King Jr. expressed their emotional response to President Trump's decision to declassify records ...

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

The dogs, hoses, and armored cars were not effective in the way that Bull Connor and much of white Birmingham wanted them to ...

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

A fierce commitment to racial color blindness — the principle that every individual should be treated by the law and by ...

Gates ("Gospel," "Making Black America," "Finding Your Roots") argues here that the Great Migration "continues to shape the ...

The Alabama African American Civil Rights Heritage Sites Consortium hosted a two-day event to teach and empower communities to continue sharing the stories from the civil rights movement.

Students interested in the life and music of Bob Dylan, and particularly how his career has intersected with the American South, have an opportunity to study just that this semester at the University ...