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 ...

The Paralympic Flame was born from the fire that burns beside Dr. Martin King Jr.'s tomb — A symbolic connection linking two ...

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

The clip has been branded a "disgrace" and "disgusting," as backlash to the war in Iran continues to play out online.

As thousands prepare to visit Selma for the annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee, one local comedian is using social media to make ...

The 2026 expansion adds sites across the South, including a Virginia courthouse tied to the court case "Loving v. Virginia" and two music museums in Nashville.

The Civil Rights Movement was powered by the daily labor, quiet decisions, and acts of care of ordinary people, especially women, whose work was often dismissed as secondary. The movement's ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump family company has filed to trademark the use of the president's name on airports but says it doesn't plan on charging a fee — at least for a proposed renaming of one near ...

Mr. Jackson was critical to Martin Luther King Jr.’s quest to transform a fight for equality in the South to a national movement for economic and social justice. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., ...

HISTORY. MORGAN’S RICH LEGACY HAS ALWAYS BEEN SHAPED BY BOLD ACTION AND PURPOSE, ESPECIALLY BY ITS STUDENTS, INCLUDING THIS GROUP WHO RISKED THEIR OWN SAFETY FOR DESEGREGATION. FOR WHATEVER REASON, ...

CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after the revered leader’s ...