Donald Trump has been branded “cruel and petty” for a change to a historical US monument which has had the effect of “erasing history” according to some.

The Birmingham Museum of Art will host a walking tour on March 29, connecting Rhoden’s legacy to contemporary artists.

Community members gathered at Michigan State University on Friday for a ‘transcribe-a-thon’ in honor of an early civil rights trailblazer.

Weeks after the FBI Anchorage Field Office released pictures showing their agents detaining unnamed men as part of what the agency described as “supporting” the Department of Homeland Security’s ...

The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868, after the Civil War, with the intention of granting full citizenship rights to freed ...

Thurgood Marshall was born in 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland, during a period when racial segregation and discrimination were deeply entrenched in American society. Marshall’s early exposure to the ...

The Associated Press' U.S. immigration news editor, Elliot Spagat, was joined by Rebecca Santana, who covers the Department ...

Frederick Douglass was an Eastern Shore native, abolitionist leader, social reformer, and one of the most important leaders of the movement for African American civil rights in the 19th century.

The nominee is ready to dismantle the Department of Education and steer federal funds away from public schools to pay for private school vouchers and tax cuts for the rich.

The Education Department will investigate the policies of five Virginia school districts that allow transgender students to ...

February is Black History Month, a time to honor the contributions and achievements of the Black community. But our Black history goes far beyond these 28 days.

Black History Month is a time to reflect on the nation’s civil rights struggles. Hagerstown author Ed Maliskas said ...