As Ella Baker noted, women were the "backbone of the civil rights movement," yet their contributions were often overlooked or ...

Rosa Parks was an avid yoga practitioner. The way Parks took a stand for civil rights reflects many of the principles behind ...

Despite great strides made by the international women’s rights movement over many years, women and girls around the world are still married as children or trafficked into forced labor and sex ...

Like the activists leading the U.S. civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, Morris’s activism was multifaceted. In addition to abolitionism, he worked tirelessly to desegregate schools, militias ...

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Sharpton has a 60-plus-year history in the civil rights movement. The popular activist ... is with the Southern Black Girls & Women’s Consortium.

Mississippi is steeped in Black history and culture, from Civil Rights sites that spurred national change to the delta -the ...

At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the ...

With Anthony’s birthday taking place during Black History Month, one organization is using her birthday celebration to also ...

In the aftermath of the Civil War, as the United States grappled with Reconstruction, Black women — both formerly ...