The 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday was commemorated on March 7. On that day in 1965, civil rights marchers, led by then-Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee leader John Lewis and Southern ...

Voting rights remain under attack, and voting rights protections, including those created in the 1965 Voting Rights Act, have ...

The cities of Selma and Montgomery will soon commemorate the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the Selma to Montgomery March ...

It was very difficult to keep going when all our efforts seemed in vain,” Rosa Parks described her work in the 1940s and ...

On March 22, Ryley Tate will join a new generation of "Stars for Freedom Rally" entertainers, with a lineup that also includes Big Boi, Larenz Tate, Dr. Jamal H. Bryant. Pastor Mike, Jekalyn Carr, ...

Montgomery, AL – Sixty years ago this month Dr. Martin Luther King led the march that changed history. The last leg of the march led by Dr. King ended at the Alabama State Capitol. At that time, there ...

MLK leads march for voting rights in 1965, U.S. attacks Iraq and Afghanistan in 2003, Dover AFBase spared in 2004, financial ...

By Courtney Mussen The fruit of a collaboration between Goodwin House in Baileys Crossroads and the Concerned Citizens ...

Young was Georgia’s first Black congressional representative in more than a century; former United Nations Ambassador; 53rd ...

The right to be served hasn't always been a right for all Americans. Sixty-four years ago, a teacher and 70 others protested ...

Brenda Haywood, a former member of Nashville's Metro Council, was 14 years old in 1965 when civil rights activists were ...

Sixty years after Bloody Sunday, the SPLC honors 40 civil rights martyrs with a ceremony focused on today’s fight to preserve ...