When he and other Black protesters were arrested at a whites-only lunch counter in 1961, they tried a new strategy — ‘Jail No ...

Martin Luther King Jr.’s fight for equality continues to inspire cannabis reform, challenging racial disparities in policing ...

Leaders are seething after Trump revoked enforcement of equal employment opportunity laws, or Title VII, under the Civil ...

Donald Trump's second inauguration coincidentally falls on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day this Monday. Civil rights leaders Marc ...

For many people, Donald J. Trump being sworn in as president on Martin Luther King Jr. Day is antithetical to the legacy of ...

President Joe Biden pardoned five activists and public servants Sunday, including a posthumous grant of clemency to Civil ...

While conservative activists praise these efforts as a return to meritocracy, left-leaning activists believe these actions ...

As the Center for American Progress has noted, “the federal government has hired Black Americans at higher rates than the ...

Terms like “environmental racism” or “environmental justice” were not yet part of the national lexicon when the Rev. Martin ...

On MLK Day, civil rights leaders are reflecting on the day’s ironic juxtaposition to the inauguration of Donald Trump.

The Root spoke with Bakari Sellers, attorney and son of civil rights legend, about the impact of Trump’s executive order.

The Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People will honor the civil rights activist at its annual meeting on Sunday.