civil rights

As his administration ends, Obama has protected more historic, cultural and natural sites than any other president before him. The new sites are in South Carolina and in Birmingham and Anniston, Ala.

The American Civil Liberties Union is siding with abortion-clinic protesters over proposed buffer zones around the facilities in Columbus.The ACLU of Ohio…

After what some called a contentious election, a new president of the Columbus NAACP chapter says she's ready to move forward. Nana Watson wants to make…

The country is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Facing continued adversity in its quarter century of existence,…

11 am In the summer of 1964, students from Ohio and across the US gathered with local African Americans in Mississippi to promote black voter education…

1o:00 From the time she was a little girl, Mahalia Jackson was singing songs of freedom. And then she met Martin Luther King, a man whose spoken words…

10:00 Fifty years go, hundreds of thousands gathered for The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Â And fifty years later, minorities still face…

11:00 Eugene Allen spent 36 years in the White House, planning dinners and serving heads of state, but when he started in 1952, he couldn't use the public…

When the Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered the “I Have a Dreamâ€? speech in August, 1963, the "I Have a Dream" section wasn’t part of the prepared…

The role of mass mobilization and mass action on popular perceptions of the Civil Rights movement, with Ohio State Professor of History Hasan Kwame…