Voices of the civil rights movement

For 40 years, Martin Luther King Day has been a federal holiday. But with his legacy and landmarks of the civil rights era no longer set in stone, we thought…

Claudette Colvin, civil rights icon arrested for not giving up bus seat, dies at 86

Claudette Colvin, a civil rights champion arrested for not giving up her bus seat for a White woman in 1955, has died at the age of 86, her family and…

Brigitte Bardot, 1960s cinema icon and animal rights activist, dies at 91

Brigitte Bardot, the French 1960s sex symbol who became one of the greatest screen sirens of the 20th century and later a militant animal rights activist and far-right supporter, has…

National civil rights museum Trump can't control is expanding

Atlanta — A popular museum in Atlanta is expanding at a critical moment in the United States — and unlike the Smithsonian Institution, the National Center for Civil and Human…

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