Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the summer of 1939, an event unfolded in Alexandria, Virginia, that represents a fight for educational access and freedom that ...

This video is no longer available. Exactly 85 years after five Black men were arrested at a Northern Virginia library during a civil rights protest, the Alexandria Library unveiled a new traveling ...

EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — East El Paso's Clardy Fox Library hosted one of its Sit and Stitch events on Thursday, where community members could craft beanies, hats and scarves that are donated to ...

A powerful new exhibit honors one of the first civil rights sit-in protests in America. In 1939, when the Alexandria Library was only open to white people, Samuel Tucker and five other young Black men ...

Awareness among campus students about the sit-in in the Anthropology Library is growing as the movement gains traction. According to anthropology doctoral candidate Jesús Gutiérrez, who works as the ...

They say you should never ask a witness a question you don’t know the answer to, and attorney Samuel Wilbert Tucker certainly knew what the answer should be when he faced two police officers in an ...

Update 2/28/2022: This story has been updated to include additional information about the library's closure. The UC Berkeley Anthropology Library will remain open after approximately 40 students and ...