A survey at the end of Donald Trump’s first term showed that two-thirds of Americans believed he had heightened racial ...

great baseball player and civil rights leader. What better way to welcome the summer weather than with African-American Music Appreciation Month? For the entire month of June, Black Americans ...

His impact can be seen even today, far beyond the noted American civil rights movements ... The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement started in 2013 after Trayvon Martin, an African-American teen, was ...

The boy raised by a single mother in working-class Queens, New York, developed a passion for civil rights activism as a pre-teen ... under the law for Black Americans. As the years progressed, though ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A veteran activist of the Civil Rights Movement said he was notified by the Smithsonian Institution that ...

WASHINGTON ‒ A coalition of civil rights leaders kicked off a weeklong campaign to rally around the national African American museum and push back against what it calls efforts by the Trump ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The landmark church was a foundation of the civil rights movement with Martin Luther ... and political expressions for Memphis’s African American communities. The landmark is notably known ...

Clayborn Temple in downtown Memphis, the organizing point for Martin Luther King Jr.'s final campaign in 1968, caught fire ...

A Bible carried during civil rights demonstrations and other artifacts are being quietly removed from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the nation’s capital, according to ...