Civil Rights Movement

As Martin Luther King's life and legacy are celebrated across the country today, a Siena Poll indicates New Yorkers’ views of race relations have soured…

Tributes have been pouring in for E. Henry Twiggs, a legendary civil rights figure and public servant from Springfield, Massachusetts. He died Thursday at…

A once-thriving community newspaper in Albany is launching a mixed media revival.Print newspapers focused on local communities in the Albany area thrived…

Pauli Murray has been called one of the most important figures in 20th century African American civil rights history. This remarkable woman was the…

Paul Murray went South as part of the Civil Rights Movement. For many years he has taught a course on the Civil Rights Movement at Sienna College and…

In our Ideas Matter segment we take time just about every week to check in with the state humanities councils in our 7-state region.Today we'll be joined…

A civil rights activist who co-founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1960 and participated in the Freedom Rides as well as the Selma…

Events are being held across western Massachusetts to honor Martin Luther King Jr. The federal holiday commemorating the civil rights hero is Monday. The…

There will be a Black History Month event at The Egg in Albany on Saturday, Feb. 28, that will combine music, speeches and a panel discussion to mark the…

Many Black History Month events are focusing on the marches in Selma, Alabama fifty years ago that helped bring an end to segregation in the South and led…