Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A map of the United States, showing the distinctions and boundaries between slave-holding and free states as well as the ...

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination in the U.S. based on “race, color, sex, religion, or national origin.” Yet, as a historian who studies social movements and political change, I ...

The two Donald Trump civil lawsuits in New York provide useful lessons about litigation when it comes to anonymous juries and unanimous verdicts, and how the defense should operate when they are ...

In the nearly six decades since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights movement has reinvented itself time and again, moving from a fight to eliminate Jim Crow to more contested ...

My grandmother’s name was Mrs. Zola Jackson. As one of the handful of Black teachers in Mississippi during the Jim Crow era of racially segregated public schools, she faced a daunting challenge in ...

As Americans continue to grapple with racial violence and the legacies of slavery, it is worth remembering the roots of the movement that created the nation’s first federal civil rights law, passed by ...