A crescendo of voices from the worlds of religion, politics, business, sports and entertainment converged at the House of ...

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

Barack Obama tore into his successor in a roaring eulogy for a civil rights icon whom Donald Trump once claimed as a good ...

These Black activists fought for civil rights over decades. Here are their warnings, and advice, for American protesters ...

As the Trump administration dismantles the Education Department, the agency is pulling back on its role policing ...

First known as the wife of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., she later became an avid proselytizer for his vision of peace ...

Litigating against the city of Chicago is probably one of the greatest schools of learning you could go to,” Antonio ...

A federal jury on Tuesday convicted former San Diego County sheriff’s Deputy Aaron Richard Russell of a civil rights ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson Sr. was honored Monday in the state where he grew up under ...

McKeesport will pay $127,500, and its police department will undergo training, as part of a settlement of a federal lawsuit ...

Bernard LaFayette, who is known for participating in the Freedom Rides and overseeing the voter registration campaign in ...

New leader of Birmingham Civil Rights Institute on why it's 'more relevant today' ...