"Good Trouble Lives On" protests are scheduled to take place on the anniversary of the death of civil rights icon John Lewis.

Press release Thursday, July 17, community members in Havre will join Americans at hundreds of events nationwide to honor the legacy of Congressman John Lewis and fight back against what they call ...

A scholar who studies the politics of protests weighs in on the potential fallout from the episode in Los Angeles.

Civil-Rights Protests Have Never Been Popular. ... That the civil-rights movement was unpopular is not shocking to the activists who protested at the time. “When I’m told by people, ...

Some lament that today’s anti-racism movement has no charismatic leaders like the civil rights era did. Such comparisons don’t reflect the real history of the struggle for Black equality in ...

The Civil Rights Movement was a defense of citizens whose lawful rights under the 14th and 15th amendments were systematically ignored. Illegal immigrants have no right under the law to stay here.

(RNS) — Footage from America’s most recent mass protests shows clergy on the frontlines. Black preachers lock arms with ...

To be sure, comparing a year of BLM protests to eight years of the civil rights movement is imperfect, and a number of factors may have led to declining support for the Black Lives Matter movement.

The protests took a wrong turn, of a kind I have seen too many other activist movements take. It’s the same wrong turn that the civil rights movement took in the late 1960s.

The student movement was sparked by one event. On Feb. 1, 1960, four students from North Carolina A&T State University demanded service at a Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C.

When the bank’s response was that there were not “four Blacks in the city” fit for such jobs, CORE launched a protest that became the longest and most contentious in St. Louis civil rights ...