One of the nation’s most prominent civil rights museums has reneged on its plans to celebrate one of America’s most…
According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the childhood home of Martin Luther King Jr. has been sold to the…
Betsy DeVos continues her methodical dismantling of civil rights protections for vulnerable students, this time setting…
Nancy Sue Wilson, the award-winning singer who lent her vocal instrument to the world for over five decades, has died…
According to the Seymour Tribune, a memoir by the late civil-rights pioneer Dovey Johnson Roundtree will not only be…
By all outward appearances, 2018 was a year of incredible progress for trans people. Of the triumphs: Christine…
More than a week after director and musician Boots Riley delivered a pointed and detailed critique of BlacKkKlansman and…
J. Kenneth Lee, one of four black students who joined a lawsuit that would ultimately lead to the desegregation of the…
In the latest edition of ‘Dumb Takes on Racism by a Fox News Guest,’ New York State Assemblyman Kieran Michael Lalor…
Candace Owens, Kanye West’s new bestie, claims that racism is no longer an issue. Was that before or after her family…
Milwaukee civil rights leader Vel Phillips—whose life was marked by shattering glass ceilings and tireless…
Poet, author, singer, dancer, director and civil rights activist Maya Angelou would have been 90 years old today. In…
We know that talent tends to run in families, but screenwriter Jenny Lumet’s family is pretty extraordinary, even by…
For Women’s History Month, Jezebel and The Root are partnering for JezeRoot, a series that focuses on women of color,…
While Americans are still waiting to deposit Harriet Tubmans in their bank accounts, our neighbors to the north have…
In front of a rapt audience at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, Malcolm X’s…
In news that would shock only an alien who just landed in the United States on his way to Pluto and was unfamiliar with…
The U.S. Supreme Court granted a stay of execution for an Alabama death row inmate whose dementia, his lawyers argue,…
Of all the stories from the civil rights era, perhaps the most extraordinary and least told tale is that of the icon…
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