The Green McAdoo Cultural Center said Anna Theresser Caswell would also be remembered as a loving mother, a grandmother, a great-grandmother and a foster mother.

A documentary about the civil rights protests in the summer of 1960 to desegregate a Maryland amusement park opens this ...

This Women's Herstory Month, the Buffalo Center for Health Equity (BCHE) highlights the trailblazing achievements of civil ...

LeMoyne-Owen College recognized seven former students Wednesday for their key role in kickstarting the Civil Rights Movement ...

Birdie Mae Davis’ name is synonymous with a decades-long legal fight to desegregate one of Alabama’s largest public school ...

Bridges made history at 6-years-old when she walked into an all-White grade school in Louisiana, surrounded by federal ...

Emily Langer has been a reporter on The Washington Post’s obituaries desk since 2011. She previously worked for the Outlook and Local Living sections. Before joining The Post in 2007, she was a ...

Lawmakers on Wednesday moved forward with a bill that would encourage more housing near public transportation hubs, one of ...

I would like to believe that we all agree that people should have adequate housing, and we do not currently have adequate housing in the state of Connecticut,” said Rep. Eleni Kavros ...

From launching community-driven schools to spearheading desegregation and beyond, Black women have been at the helm of innovating education.

By Clay Risen L. Clifford Davis, a civil rights lawyer who led efforts to desegregate high schools in Texas, sometimes in the face of mob violence, hostility from state politicians and threats on ...

She refused to perform at segregated clubs, telling them to either desegregate or lose her. Most chose to desegregate. In 1963, she spoke at the March on Washington next to Martin Luther King Jr.