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 ...

Bernard LaFayette, who died March 5, was instrumental in the organization of students across Nashville to protest segregated lunch counters in 1960.

At Operation PUSH on Chicago’s South Side, the work of civil rights leader Jesse Louis Jackson Sr. reached millions of viewers through television broadcasts, rallies, and marches. But behind the ...

Friday was the first time the historic Brown Chapel AME Church opened its doors since 2020 to fix termite, water and structural issues.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act ...

Thousands gathered at Chicago’s House of Hope on March 6 to celebrate the life and legacy of Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader who died Feb. 17 at age 84. Former presidents, national leaders ...

Bernard LaFayette, who is known for participating in the Freedom Rides and overseeing the voter registration campaign in Selma that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died ...

Bernard LaFayette, the former director of URI’s Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies who did the risky groundwork for the ...

From three former presidents to faith leaders, dignitaries and his family, Jackson was celebrated as a man who instilled ...

Hosea Williams grew up in Attapulgus before marching alongside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and becoming a frontline figure in the civil rights movement.

Chang, the hip hop historian and cultural critic, has written a vivid history of the martial arts legend and his worlds. He ...