Civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer’s Presidential Medal of Freedom is now on display at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum.

A traveling exhibit celebrating civil rights leader Lonnie C. King Jr. brings national history back to its local roots.

Medgar Evers’ journey from soldier to civil rights leader began here in Mississippi, where his courage and conviction ...

The Black historian Carter G. Woodson — who dedicated his career to the study of Black life and history — responded 100 years ...

CATA officials offered tours of the public bus agency's Rosa Parks Tribute Bus outside the state Capitol on Feb. 4.

Sarah Stringer and Mae Ocie Poole describe the role a family home played in the Montgomery Bus Boycott era during this interview from Aug. 19, 2005. 'The people had the strength.' Mary Jo Smiley on ...

FARMVILLE, Va. (WDBJ) - When Earl Hughes visits the Robert Russa Moton Museum in Farmville, he sees himself in the exhibits. “That is my classroom,” Hughes said, pointing to a wall-sized photograph.

DANVILLE, Va. – In the summer of 1963, as racial tensions reached a crescendo across America, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made a series of pivotal visits to Danville that would leave an indelible mark ...

A year into President Donald Trump’s second term, the federal government is flipping the logic of civil rights on its head, using the language of nondiscrimination to destroy the legal structures that ...

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 ...

On this week's episode of "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," I speak with civil rights legend the Rev. Andrew J. Young to mark the Dr. Martin Luther King holiday. Born in 1932, Young was King's No. 1 ...