On his second day in office, President Donald Trump labeled O.F.C.C.P.’s efforts to enforce the 1964 Civil Rights Act illegal and discriminatory — presumably against white people. He signed his own ...

To resurrect civil rights era cold cases, two reporters uncovered new sources and accessed forgotten government documents to ...

MIAMI – Karah Perkins, the granddaughter of civil rights activist and social justice advocate John Perkins, was shot and killed in Jackson, Mississippi, according to the Clarion Ledger. Capitol police ...

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SANTA FE, N.M. - The name George I. Sanchez has been celebrated for years among Mexican-Americans in Texas and California.

Penn Township author Ron Kirkwood spent 17 days in 2022 at the National Archives in Washington, DC, scouring hundreds of ...

If mainstream media coverage in 1963 had looked different, perhaps Danville’s civil rights movement would have remained in the public consciousness in the years afterward, one journalism professor ...

Almost four years after his “I Have a Dream” speech, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. arrived at a tent-in demonstration in DuPage County.

Anthony Perkins was born April 4, 1932 in New York City, to Janet Esselstyn (Rane) and Osgood Perkins, an actor of both stage and film. His father died when he was five. Anthony's paternal ...