At the Rapides Parish Coliseum on November 22, 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood before educators at the 65th session of the Louisiana Education Association, delivering a speech titled “Remaining ...

President signed huge stack of orders on first day in office covering everything from national security to paper straws and has shown no sign of slowing down ...

On Sunday, March 9, civil rights leaders gathered at the City Hall steps to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Edmund Pettus.

Over the years, our country’s tragedies and triumphs have been written in Jesse Jackson’s determined brow, silent tears and ...

Trump’s pick for US attorney for D.C. has history of inflammatory, racist comments - His nomination for U.S. Attorney for D.C ...

The protesters of the civil rights movement didn’t just show up. They planned for every eventuality. It’s a lesson that’s starkly relevant today.

SELMA — Sheyann Webb-Christburg was eight years old when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. attempted to lead hundreds in a march ... In 2015, then-President Barack Obama spoke in Selma for the 50th ...

“Clara is tenacious,” says Belinda Dixon, a longtime friend and a 1994 Staten Island Woman of Achievement. “She’s not loud, ...

George E. Johnson, at 97, is a rich man. He’s been a rich man since the 1960s. He’s owned yachts, cattle ranches and a home ...

Sixty years after the Bloody Sunday march in Selma Alabama, the contributions of Black women civil rights activists are still being acknowledged today.

As people gather in Selma to remember "Bloody Sunday,'' some call for action. "We're still in the midst of this struggle,’’ ...