To young and old today who want to make a change, Rita Omokha proclaims, “Tell yourself you can — and watch yourself prove it ...

During this boycott, hundreds of thousands of parents, students and activists engaged in a daylong protest of segregation and ...

At first glance, the documentary Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round seems like a familiar story of Black-Jewish allyship during protests of the civil rights era. But the narrative becomes more ...

Although segregation in Las Vegas ended in 1960, UNLV Associate Professor Tyler Parry says that discrimination, racism and ...

It had long turned Black children and their parents away from its rides, and it took over nine weeks of picketing — and a sit-in on the carousel — to end the segregation. MORE: What to expect ...

SC State University marked 57 years since the Orangeburg Massacre, as survivors and families remembered those killed and the ...

Feb. 8 marks 57 years since the Orangeburg Massacre of 1968, when South Carolina Highway Patrol officers opened fire on a ...

Barbara Brown Simmons was the first Black woman to graduate from the University of New Mexico School of Law and the first ...

February is Black History Month, an appropriate time for celebrating the struggles, triumphs and contributions of this nation’s African American citizens. Born in February were President Abraham ...

The Black students were joined by white, mostly Jewish neighbors, the first interracial civil rights protest in the country.

He doesn’t try to hide his past, which is searchable online. Instead, he says that he no longer identifies as a klansman but ...