On the afternoon of February 1, 1960, four college freshmen walked up to the lunch counter of a Woolworth’s department store in Greensboro, North Carolina, and changed the course of history. Joseph ...

For boomers, the rapid reversal of 1960s-era gains for civil rights, women, LGBTQ, etc., has unraveled the story of our ...

When he and other Black protesters were arrested at a whites-only lunch counter in 1961, they tried a new strategy — ‘Jail No ...

Ted Richardson/For The Washington Post via Getty Images On the afternoon of February 1, 1960, four college ... marked an early success for the civil rights movement. But it would take until ...

And a few brave TV producers who put it on the tube. And a few exceptional Hollywood actors who embodied it on screen. The 1960s civil rights movement was galvanizing. King, whose birth we celebrate ...

The landscape of civil rights activism has evolved significantly since the 1960s, with a new generation ... they help ensure continuity in the civil rights movement while adapting to contemporary ...

While conservative activists praise these efforts as a return to meritocracy, left-leaning activists believe these actions ...

President Trump revoked a 1965 rule that prohibited federal contractors from discriminating against employees or job ...