On the afternoon of February 1, 1960, four college freshmen walked up to the lunch counter of a Woolworth’s department store in Greensboro, North Carolina, and changed the course of history. Joseph ...

Civil rights activists gathered outside the headquarters of Target Corp. on Thursday to call for a national boycott of the ...

Nestled in the edge of West Sacramento lies The Latino Center of Art and Culture, a museum and multidisciplinary cultural center that brings a sense of home and support to all of the community, ...

Resisting with marches won't be enough. We must approach the next four years with the resilience to adapt, innovate and be ...

José “Cha Cha” Jiménez, a prominent civil rights and liberation movement figure and founder of the Young Lords in Chicago and co-founder of the Rainbow Coalition has died. He was 76. His sister, ...

As Azios first reported, records showed the CIA was monitoring not only leading Chicano activists of ... record with regard to the Latino civil rights movement has remained incomplete.” ...

The state of Colorado rang in the new year by adding a "Chicana/o Pride" special license plate option for the state’s motorists. Jose Ortega, executive director of the Pueblo-based grassroots ...

(AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File) Coretta Scott King, widow of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., speaks at an unveiling of a portrait of Martin Luther King by artist George Mandus on Feb.

Brave and generous like few others, this woman, a symbol of the Chicano movement, died March 25 from "unknown causes ... and she was fired when she informed her co-workers of their rights. However, ...

Mexican American group the Brown Berets speak at a Denver press conference in August 1971. Photo: John G. White/The Denver Post via Getty Images ...

This column was adapted from the forthcoming “New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Movement,” to be released on Jan. 14. As an author and journalist ...

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