Claudette Colvin’s bold stand comes into focus during Black History Month, highlighting young activists who helped shape the fight for civil rights.

The thievery, the homicide and/or the decimation of all things Black continue as one of the saddest and longest chapters of ...

Claudette Colvin speaks alongside civil rights attorney Fred Gray, left, during a press conference at the Montgomery County Family Court on October 26, 2021, in Montgomery, Alabama, after petitioning ...

Members of the Edward Livingston Historical Association recently explored the continuity of arguments prominent Southerners used, sometimes 100 years apart, to defend chattel slavery and Jim Crow ...

In 1963 US President John F. Kennedy had to deputise the Alabama National Guard. Why? Because Alabama's Governor George Wallace, a Democrat, refused to enforce US segregation laws, which allowed black ...

COLUMBIA — The religious freedom laws that several states have passed are just as wrong as laws that allowed racial segregation a century ago if they allow people to discriminate, U.S. Rep. James ...