Music played a powerful role in the Civil Rights era, providing a soundtrack for the movement and inspiring hope for change with songs like "We Shall Overcome", "A Change Is Gonna Come", "People Get Ready",

Since this country’s founding, when we’ve had something to say, we have taken to the streets. We’ve come together to celebrate our identities, to protect our land and our communities — and to push for change following injustice and tragedy.

When Maui musician Gail Swanson was growing up in Chicago, she would often accompany her mother on protest marches. “On the weekends she would take my sister and I to the marches when Martin Luther King Jr.

President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles to stop protests against his immigration crackdown isn’t the first time an elected U.S. official has sent troops to thwart unrest over civil rights. But National Guard troops are ...

Joseph McNeil was one of four North Carolina A&T University students that staged a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in 1960. The protests by the four students inspired other demonstrations in the South. McNeil was a key figure in the civil rights ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — The site of a crucial moment in Kalamazoo’s Civil Rights Movement history will make way for a new senior center this fall. In the 1960s, Van Avery Drug Store sat near the intersection of north Burdick Street and west North Street.

MLK III, who is the chairman of the Drum Major Institute, rebuked the recent escalations by ICE and Homeland Security Investigations officers, who have surged into Minneapolis by the thousands and have also been sent to cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, and Houston.

As the civil rights protests of the 1960s spread across America, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. joined Meet the Press to urge his supporters to commit to nonviolent resistance.