When I read Thomas Gaither’s obituary in the New York Times, “Thomas GaitherKeep Your Head Down, Who Chose Jail After Civil ...

Terms like “environmental racism” or “environmental justice” were not yet part of the national lexicon when the Rev. Martin ...

For Charles Person and Thomas Gaither, 1961 was an eventful year in their young lives. Person was 18 and became the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, and Gaither was 22 when he introduced the ...

Liberal activists have planned protests ahead of Trump's inauguration, but numbers expected to be lower than the 2017 Women's ...

This launched a series of protests that would ... Four years after that , the Civil Rights Act of 1964 would mandate all businesses to desegregate. The sit-in movement spread across the South.

Common elements like memorability, teachability and timelessness can lead to songs moving from the stage to the streets.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - East Tennessee civil rights activist Alvereen Bridgeforth spent Monday honoring those who came ...

Andrew Young shares how Martin Luther King Jr. sent him to Birmingham, Alabama a month before protests to build connections with white and Black communities.

"While others were advocating for freedom by 'any means necessary,' including violence, Martin Luther King Jr. used the power ...

Charles Person, the youngest original member of the Freedom Riders, passed away at 82 in Fayetteville. At 18, Person joined ...