Civil rights activist Bernard Lafayette, who helped organize the Selma Voting Rights Movement in the 1960s, died March 5, 2026, at age 85. In this 1980 "Sunday Morning" report by Ted Holmes, Lafayette ...

More than any other individual, Jackson embodied the transformation of the civil rights movement—its conversion from a mass ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — On Tuesday night, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute kicked off its 18th Legacy Youth Leadership Program, an effort to transform Birmingham’s civil rights history into a ...

As the nation reflects on the life and legacy of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, educators and students in Atlanta say his passing is ...

The U.S. Civil Rights Trail highlights local establishments that have a history. In Nashville, Black businesses like Swett’s, Slim and Husky’s Pizza and Alkebu-Lan Images bookstore are highlighted ...

Attendees of Honoring Gloucester’s Pioneers of Progress at The Gloucester Institute on Saturday applauded as it was announced that Gloucester County is one of ...

A year into President Donald Trump’s second term, the federal government is flipping the logic of civil rights on its head, using the language of nondiscrimination to destroy the legal structures that ...

Six sites across Virginia, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Florida join the U.S. Civil Rights Trail, including a courthouse tied to Loving v. Virginia.

Many New York leaders are sharing their thoughts after famed civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson died Tuesday morning.

Rutha Mae Harris, the final surviving member of the original Freedom Singers, continues her work in Albany, Georgia, six decades after the Civil Rights Movement. She remains dedicated to showing ...

Decatur County residents observed Hosea Williams Day on Tuesday with a wreath-laying ceremony in Attapulgus that honored the ...

For 40 years, Martin Luther King Day has been a federal holiday. But with his legacy and landmarks of the civil rights era no longer set in stone, we thought it might be a good time to look back at ...