Few people embody the magnificence of American diversity better than Harmeet Dhillon, the San Francisco attorney sworn in ...

The U.S. Department of Education announced Friday it plans to investigate whether New York education officials are being ...

Where was the civil-rights law ... the Summer Project believe that some of those involved in it welcome the antagonism of Mississippi whites as the best way to get large-scale federal ...

Representing the plaintiffs, a coalition including the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project, the ACLU of Mississippi, the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Mississippi Center for Justice, and ...

Federal funding for the Mississippi Humanities Council was cut, effective immediately. Here's how the cuts may affect you.

The Mississippi Humanities Council lost all ... with MHC to help preserve the history of school integration and the civil rights movement in her community. "I'm not surprised," Foster said when ...

For the second consecutive time, the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson has been nominated for the best history museum in the United States in USA Today's 10 Best Reader's Choice Awards.

Mississippian civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. On Saturday, President Joe Biden awarded 19 recipients the prestigious medal at the White House.

and reflect on the struggles for freedom and equality that had humbled me at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. Inside the Big Apple Inn, I’m transported to the 1960s with wood-panelled walls ...

The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis is commemorating ... How this Illinois-based nonprofit is working to keep the Mississippi River mighty Amid Memphis Animal Services turmoil, city ...