As America marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Black women in New Orleans have their own ideas about freedom and democracy. On May 20 and May 26, 2026, Black women gathered...

They faced violence and racism as they fought on the frontlines for justice and equality. Now Trump is reversing the progress they toiled for

The civil rights icon died fighting for the right to vote. But the Supreme Court is on the verge of upending one of the VRA's remaining pillars.

Louisiana Republicans April 23 rammed through legislation to keep Calvin Duncan, a wrongfully convicted Black man and attorney, from taking office as New Orleans’ Clerk of Criminal Court, a move that ...

Lottie Joiner, former editor of the NAACP’s The Crisis, reminds us not to forget women’s leadership in history or today in a Q&A with the Fuller Project

How running fails Black America

David Dennis knows a little something about resistance. He was one of the original Freedom Riders in the early 1960s

The civil rights icon died fighting for the right to vote. But the Supreme Court is on the verge of upending one of the VRA's remaining pillars.

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Leona Tate has built a center at the former school she and her two six-year-old friends braved angry crowds to attend – the same day as Ruby Bridges’ better-known experience

Leona Tate has built a center at the former school she and her two six-year-old friends braved angry crowds to attend – the same day as Ruby Bridges’ better-known experience

Leona Tate has built a center at the former school she and her two six-year-old friends braved angry crowds to attend – the same day as Ruby Bridges’ better-known experience

Leona Tate has built a center at the former school she and her two six-year-old friends braved angry crowds to attend – the same day as Ruby Bridges’ better-known experience

Leona Tate has built a center at the former school she and her two six-year-old friends braved angry crowds to attend – the same day as Ruby Bridges’ better-known experience

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From DJ Kool Herc dropping the needle on a record at a party in the Bronx more than fifty years ago and then experimenting with mixing beats and scratching records, worldwide legions of rappers, dance...

The gift, one of Scott’s largest single donations, will help UNCF build a $370m pooled endowment for its 37 HBCUs

Target CEO Brian Cornell is stepping down after 11 years at the retailer, as the company faces slumping sales and backlash to its retreat on DEI.

Robert Smalls​ escaped slavery in Charleston by commandeering a Confederate ship and became a top Union naval officer and South Carolina lawmaker.

People are shutting their wallets to firms such as Target and Amazon, which followed in Trump’s footsteps to undo DEI

People are shutting their wallets to firms such as Target and Amazon, which followed in Trump’s footsteps to undo DEI

People are shutting their wallets to firms such as Target and Amazon, who followed in Trump’s footsteps to undo DEI

Explore the life and legacy of the civil rights pioneer.

Louisiana’s controversial law requiring public schools and colleges to post the Ten Commandments violates the U.S. Constitution and cannot be enforced, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.

Juneteenth is an often overlooked event in our nation’s history. On June 19, 1865, Union troops freed enslaved African Americans in Galveston Bay and across Texas some two and a half years after Presi...

South Carolina political figures and lawmakers call for policy action 10 years after Dylann Roof shot and killed nine people at a Charleston church.

In the driveway outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi, African American civil rights leader Medgar Evers is shot t...

In her new book, ‘Bad Company,’ journalist Megan Greenwell shows how the secretive industry has insinuated itself into average Americans’ lives.

Current and former officials say the current effort amounts to the dismantling of the civil rights division and its traditional mission.

The renewal of the decade-old OPSO millage passed by just two votes after more than 25,000 votes were counted.

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The award-winning freelance journalist reflects on her start in the business, popular articles, and the benefits of board work