This April, Major League Baseball's celebrations of Jackie Robinson Day were subtly muted, as the league downplayed ...

Williams even befriended John F. Kennedy in New York in 1960, when the young photographer arrived at the Roosevelt Hotel with ...

Along with Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Kwame Ture, Rosa Parks is one of the celebrated names of the civil rights movement: the Montgomery, Alabama woman who refused to move from her seat ...

Eighty years ago this week—on September 8, 1945—a little-known episode in the struggle to challenge racial segregation took ...

The first and second installments of this series included such surprises as Babe Ruth on the Angels, Reggie Jackson on the Cubs, and Pete Rose on the Tigers, not to mention the great Jackie Robinson ...

Civil rights advocates on Tuesday filed a lawsuit to overturn a redistricting map expected to favor Republicans in the 2026 midterm elections, saying it weakens the electoral influence of Black voters ...

GEDDES, N.Y. — A plaque was dedicated to Van Robinson at the Great New York State Fair on Tuesday. Van Robinson was a former Syracuse Common Council President and a civil rights advocate. He passed ...

Caesars Palace Times Square – the joint bid from SL Green, Caesars Entertainment, JAY-Z’s Roc Nation, and Live Nation to bring a state-of-the-art gaming and entertainment destination to 1515 Broadway ...

BERKELEY, Calif. (KGO) -- UC Berkeley has long been known as the home of the free speech movement. It's a campus that prides itself on its diversity and has a history of free speech protests and ...

There's been an abrupt leadership change atop the Indiana Civil Rights Commission, the agency charged with enforcing civil rights law and investigating discrimination complaints in the workplace, ...

The NAACP and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law filed a lawsuit on Tuesday alleging that a new congressional map passed in Texas violates the Voting Rights Act. The lawsuit alleges ...