The Urban Civil Rights Museum is expected to open in June 2026, coinciding with the organization's 250th anniversary.

In this digital age of disinformation, it’s easy for simple facts about the Civil Rights Movement to get misconstrued. During this era, which rose to prominence in the 1950s, Black folks worked ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. Apr 10, 2025, 12:05pm EDT Martin Luther King waves to ...

The Urban Civil Rights Museum, Harlem, New York City’s first museum dedicated to the American Civil Rights Movement, is set ...

The Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum celebrated 30 years with West African Gullah-Geechee performances, ...

2023 marks the 60th anniversary of the Birmingham Campaign, a series of protests and demonstrations that have since been hailed as a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement. In the years since ...

Rhythm and Blues wasn’t just a genre—it was a powerful force in the fight for civil rights. In this episode of The Cause: Conversations on Music, History, and Democracy, Dr. Reiland Rabaka explores ...

The Niagara Movement | The Early Battle for Civil Rights explores the Black elite and intellectual society at the turn of the 20th century, a class rarely presented. It examines the heated debate and ...

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Sharpton has a 60-plus-year history in the civil rights movement. The popular activist got his start as a youth director for Jesse Jackson’s Operation Breadbasket at age 13 ...

Most of us think about Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat or Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington when we think about the civil rights movement. Lesser known is the issue of library ...

The teams visited the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Saturday as part of a 16-year Birmingham Bowl tradition that connects ...