Jennifer Hudson delivers a powerful rendition of “A Change Is Gonna Come” at Rev. Jesse Jackson’s funeral in Chicago, honoring the civil rights icon’s enduring legacy.

Discover the Wilfandel Club, a historic Los Angeles women’s organization founded in 1945 to uplift the Black community through service and culture.

Explore the history and cultural impact of the Studio Museum in Harlem and its role in elevating Black artists and shaping contemporary art.

Throughout American history, many have had to fight to advance the ideals of liberty and equality. Learn about 7 lesser known civil rights leaders who were crucial to their causes.

Discover how the Montgomery Bus Boycott began, who led it, and why it became a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement.

As we mark Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, Martha Teichner talks with some of those who were engaged from the very beginning of the civil rights movement.

Before Rosa Parks, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat. Her courage helped dismantle bus segregation in America.

The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African American military pilots and support personnel in the U.S. Army Air Corps (the precursor to the U.S. Air Force) during World War II. They were part of an experimental program to train Black aviators at Tuskegee A...

How did the Tuskegee Veterans Hospital spark the fury of the KKK? Tuskegee was established as the first and only Veterans Hospital to provide equitable healthcare to Black Veterans returning from WWI.

It was strategist Bayard Rustin – a pacifist and gay Black man – who organized the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I have a dream" speech.

For decades, most historical accounts of Nov. 14, 1960, featured Ruby Bridges as the sole child crossing hostile lines to attend an all-white school in the Ninth Ward, but there were three others.

Juanita Odessa Jones Abernathy was an American civil rights activist, and the wife of Ralph Abernathy.

Civil Rights activists Joseph McNeil, Diane Nash, and John Lewis reflect on the history and legacy of the lunch counter from the F. W. Woolworth department store in North Carolina and the sit-in campaign that began on February 1, 1960.

On Sunday, March 21, 1965, nearly 8,000 people began the five-day march from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights.

On September 25, 1957, nine Black students courageously started their first full day at an all-white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas, amid an angry mob of students, pro-segregationist groups and a defiant governor.