Voting rights for women, immigrants, Blacks, Native Americans and soldiers went through many changes beginning in the late 1800s, up to the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920. Dr. Rachel ...

Dave Dennis, a Shreveport native and civil rights icon, will speak at LSUS on Friday to discuss his role in the 1964 Summer ...

Donald Trump picked on the wrong athlete. Even though Jackie Robinson died in 1972, last week he bested Trump in a contest ...

And the eye of Sauron descends on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ... of the civil-rights movement. That is the singular moral failure at the heart of modern American conservatism.

The FBI and Native American activists: A volatile mix Peltier was part of a movement in the late 1960s and 1970s that fought for Native American rights and tribal self-determination, sometimes ...

After nearly 50 years of arbitrary detention, Native American activist Leonard Peltier was finally able to return home on ...

In honor of Women's History Month, we celebrate the trailblazing women activists and politicians who paved the way in ...

Feiler, a fifth-generation Jewish civil rights activist, first learned about the Rosenwald Schools in 2015 over lunch with Janie Syriac, an African-American ... a Georgia native, his work debuted ...

Native Americans widely believe he was a political prisoner who was wrongly convicted because he fought for Indigenous rights as a member of the American Indian Movement. For years, many in law ...

A volatile mix Peltier was part of a movement in the late 1960s and 1970s that fought for Native American rights and tribal self-determination, sometimes occupying federal and tribal property.

Brown Chapel A.M.E Church in Selma, Alabama, a pivotal location during the civil rights movement, is undergoing a $1 million renovation. The African American ... Alabama native, said that Brown ...