Hanging on the wall of Police Chief Ronnie Lewis’s office is a picture of Martin Luther King Jr. with the following quote ...

Claudette Colvin's refusal to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Alabama in 1955 was a key moment in the US civil rights ...

There is a dangerous misinformation campaign about Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The false narrative ...

Under White's leadership, the NAACP sharpened its focus on legal challenges to segregation and disfranchisement. He set up the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, and hired a young, brilliant ...

I only recently learned the phrase “movement lawyering.” Dorcas Gilmore, at Baltimore Action Legal Team, was the first to say ...

The dean of UC Berkeley’s Law School looks at how the courts have prioritized criminal control over civil rights for suspects ...

Local leaders in Columbia are working to explore the past, redeem the present and inspire the future—that's the motto of the ...

“The fellowship was demanding and intense, but extremely rewarding,” says Levy, who generally worked with three other summer Research Fellows: undergraduate students from Harvard, the University of ...

Martin Luther King Jr speaks to civil rights marchers in Montgomery, Alabama, on March 25, 1965. He was a believer in health ...

Civil rights groups such as the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the National Association for the Advancement ...

Every surface seemed to glisten in the airy sports arena. U.S. District Judge D. Price Marshall Jr., soft-spoken and dressed ...