A judge in South Carolina has erased the records of seven Black men arrested in 1960 for sitting at an all-white lunch counter ...

Finally on Friday, that arrest and the records of six of his friends were erased as a judge signed an order during a ceremony ...

The Klan's activities increased again in the 1950s and 1960s in opposition to the civil rights movement. In line with their founding ambitions, the Ku Klux Klan attacked and killed both Black and ...

Clay became a boxer and suffered the indignation of winning an Olympic gold medal for the United States in 1960 and being ... during the years when the civil rights movement achieved its first ...

She was highly regarded as a folk, blues and jazz singer. She was also ardently left-wing and prioritized social change over commercial success.

An American Civil Liberties Union lawyer will make history in December as the first openly transgender attorney to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court, opposing Tennessee's Republican-backed law ...

He was one of the longest surviving members of the band that came to define the acid rock sound emanating from San Francisco ...

The political landscape of two decades ago seems almost unrecognizable now. Back then, opposing wars and the surveillance ...

Grieving families say they want answers as to why a metal walkway at a state-operated dock in Georgia collapsed over the weekend, killing seven people The Latest Elon Musk is pledging to give away ...

The New Orleans City Council has rejected plans to turn a historic home connected with the life of civil rights movement leader Oretha Castle Haley into a museum The Latest Hundreds of people have ...

six decades after arriving in Greenwich Village as part of the folk music movement that changed popular music. This year is the 60th anniversary of his major-label debut album, Ramblin’ Boy, which ...