A water fountain. A lunch counter. A seat on a public bus. Access to these things might sound simple, but the Civil Rights Movement thrust them deeply and permanently into our national fabric ...

The year 1963 was a landmark one for the civil rights movement – and it's the subject of Peniel Joseph's new book Freedom Season. In the book, the University of Texas at Austin professor argues the ...

Photographer Steve Schapiro reflects on his past work. — -- In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. said in a sermon: “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and ...

A new opera tells the story of the Black women who organized in Alabama leading up to the Montgomery bus boycott. A new opera which premiered this week in Chicago highlights the lesser-known women who ...