The tragic death of 18-year-old Nolan Wells, the community college football player who went missing while socializing with friends on the Fourth of July, has sent shock waves throughout the ...

She became the highest-ranking female member of the Young Lords in New York, where she pressed for women’s rights, and later ...

Lifelong activist, organizer and educator Denise Oliver-Vélez has died at the age of 78. She was a central figure in the civil rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s and was the first woman elected ...

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster appointed Darline Graham, the late Sen. Lindsey Graham’s sister, to be the temporary ...

Sen. Lindsey Graham's death sparks questions about his replacement, special elections, and the Senate's future.

Sen. Lindsey Graham's death sparks questions about his replacement, special elections, and the Senate's future.

Playwright Cheryl L. West’s “Fannie (The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer)” chronicles the life of the ‘60s civil rights ...

CHESTER — Fannie Lou Hamer didn’t learn she had the right to vote until she was 44 years old. Hamer, a Black sharecropper who hadn’t graduated from middle school, was radicalized by this information.

The Hollywood Reporter spoke with the exiting actor whose character viewers have grown to love about their shocking fate — as showrunner Sascha Penn explains why it had to happen. By Ronda Racha ...

“Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hook because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human ...

The video documents Fannie Lou Hamer’s civil rights activism and why it matters for understanding voting access in mid‑20th‑century Mississippi. It traces how Fannie Lou Hamer mobilized Black ...