The Black church has long played a significant role in supporting faith and the fight for Civil Rights in America, with its origins dating back to the first African American congregations in the ...

While Till's accused killers, Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam, were acquitted by an all-white jury, the two later admitted to Till ...

Approximately 90 African Americans have been identified as serving in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. Unlike the American ...

Carrying signs with slogans including “FIGHT IGNORANCE NOT IMMIGRATION,” a crowd of more than 150 people gathered in West ...

As Black Americans stand in the face of what might be a Civil Rights Movement 2.0, we celebrate our contemporary civil rights ...

Symbols really do matter. Trump has placed a picture of President Andrew Jackson in the Oval Office. Jackson was an owner of enslaved people who became wealthy because of the institution of slavery.

Jackson Sr., who worked alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights movement. Attendees at the breakfast included Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, Illinois House Speaker Emanuel ...

At Northwestern, demonstrators called on the university to divest from Israel as part of a nationwide movement ... of Education's Office for Civil Rights is now reviewing how pro-Palestinian ...

CHICAGO (WLS ... the city at the epicenter of the Sanctuary Movement. Represented by Just Futures Law and Community Justice, Civil Rights Clinic of Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and ...

Paul Driscoll, an Associated Press journalist and newsroom leader who covered the civil rights movement and 1968 Democratic National Convention protests in Chicago, died Friday. He was 91. He died at ...