Slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers is remembered each year during the NAACP National Convention, which opened in ...

Richard Hunt” opens Friday at the Loyola University Museum of Art, spotlighting America's most prolific public art sculptor.

Chicago civil rights vets ‘remix’ historic March on Washington. theGRIO REPORT - Chicagoans reflect on the historic event 50 years ago and how it feels to have a “hometown son” in the ...

One of the most visible murals from the CTA’s Red Line is an Uptown painting by Darius Dennis of a 1966 photo by Danny Lyon, a Civil Rights Movement photographer with strong Chicago ties.

CHICAGO — Chicago civil rights leaders and Illinois politicians reaffirmed their dedication to protecting ... who worked alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights movement.

A new opera which premiered this week in Chicago highlights the lesser-known women who worked alongside Rosa Parks during the Civil Rights Movement. Reporter Courtney Kueppers from member station ...

But as the new opera "She Who Dared" tells it, Parks was part of a larger movement that was taking hold in the late 1950s in Montgomery, Alabama. Here's librettist Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton, who ...