Known as the Tougaloo Nine, the demonstrators staged a sit-in that helped the NAACP push for the desegregation of public ...

From California to Minnesota, elected leaders and civil rights groups are scrambling to distance themselves from César Chavez’s name in the wake of sexual abuse allegations. Efforts have been ...

From Franklin's "Join or Die" woodcuts to editorial cartoons, the AIDS crisis to Black Lives Matter and #MeToo, art has captured America's struggles.

The Black Power struggle is far from over. It has evolved and adapted to contemporary realities, continuing to fight for justice and equality.

I started high school in 1961. Already a rebel, I dropped out of Oakland Tech, and then went over to Berkeley High in 1963-64. We could feel the times a-changing. In 1960 young people, not much older ...

Revelations about the creation of the United Farm Workers under César Chávez are adding to a reassessment of the organization ...

An estimated several million people at more than 3,000 events across the U.S. turned out to protest against President Trump, ...

With a Revolutionary-era slogan, the protests had an historic geographical reach across the country. What does that mean for ...

Crowds of people protested Saturday against the war in Iran and President Trump's actions, in "No Kings" rallies across the U ...

On Feb. 24, The Conversation hosted a webinar titled, “What Americans can learn from other nonviolent civil activism ...