SPRINGFIELD — A chance discovery in Springfield College’s archives led a local professor on a yearslong quest to write about a lesser-known chapter in the nation’s Civil Rights Movement. There, Martin ...

During 2026 Homecoming, Professor Martin Dobrow had his first event following the release of his new book, Original City, ...

Harvard professor Brandon M. Terry offers a new way of thinking about what the leaders of that period achieved, what they lost, and why we should still have hope. We all know the mainstream history of ...

A new book traces the careers of five talented Black women artists and activists who converged at a venue where performance ...

Although they only met once, Malcolm X was often asked his opinion of Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement.

There’s a traditional narrative about the history of Black people and the law. It describes how slaves were entirely shut out of the legal system, disenfranchised and bereft of even a modicum of legal ...

Juan Williams details 2nd civil rights movement in 'New Prize for These Eyes' In 1987, journalist Juan Williams helped illuminate the Civil Rights Movement with "Eyes on the Prize," a groundbreaking ...

Libraries and bookstores abound with works about the March on Washington, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement. These are among the best and most informative: ...

AMERICAN PUBLIC memory of the civil-rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s has long been fixed on the struggle to dismantle Jim Crow in the South. Most accounts centre on the national efforts of ...

Millions of people took to the streets last weekend in solidarity against President Donald Trump. Protest signs and public speeches decried his administration’s attacks on immigrants, LGBTQ people and ...