Today, the SPLC and the nation mourn the loss of civil rights and voting rights activist Bernard LaFayette. He was 85.

The event marked the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the most violent day of the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery march for the ...

Bernard LaFayette, who died Thursday, laid the foundations of the Selma, Alabama, campaign that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act. He was a Freedom Rider and helped found the Student ...

Her landmark book “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” was among the first 20th-century autobiographies of a Black woman to reach a wide readership.

Mrs. Loving’s anger over being banished from Virginia for marrying a white man led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling overturning state miscegenation laws.

We know the leaders of the movement, but how well do you know the story behind the 26-year-old martyr whose death sparked ...

The civil rights pioneer Bernard Lafayette, who joined Freedom Rides and fought for voting rights in the Jim Crow South, has died at the age of 85. In the 1960s, Lafayette was a member of the Student ...