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 ...

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

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 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 ...

An Esterbrook pen, used by President Lyndon B. Johnson to sign the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Collection of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of James F.

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 ...

There was a time when “civil rights” didn’t mean what it does today. “In the century after emancipation,” Dylan Penningroth tells us in his cogently subversive book, “Before the Movement,” “civil ...