Martin Luther King Jr., Pete Seeger, Charis Horton, Rosa Parks and Ralph Abernathy at Highlander Folk School in 1957. The Cumberland ridge of middle Tennessee may seem to be a far cry from the ...

America has waited decades for the full release of documents relating to the killings of JFK, RFK and MLK. That wait may soon be over.

Ahead of the spring semester, nine students traveled to Washington, D.C., and Jackson, Mississippi, as part of a community-engaged learning trip led by the Swearer Center and in partnership with ...

The U.S. Department of Justice is pausing all active litigation being done by its civil rights division. How could this freeze affect Memphis' cases?

Dr. Dee Dawkins-Haigler and Co-host Keith Grandberry spoke with the pioneering figure behind the establishment of the Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) and the U.S. Government Black College Program, ...

While the movement achieved critical victories in securing legal rights and breaking down systemic injustice, it fell short ...