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 ...

A close associate of Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis, he was involved in many of the key moments of the Black freedom ...

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

A political action committee opposing Virginia’s April 21 redistricting referendum is facing sharp criticism after sending ...

Inquirer staff report The Kentucky Wesleyan College NAACP chapter and Black Student Union will host civil rights leader and ...

Friends honor civil rights trailblazer and the former mayor as he turns 94, celebrating his lifelong impact on the city and the world ...

Danny Lyon was a student at the University of Chicago in the summer of 1962, when he photographed a sit-in on the campus. The sit-in was organized by current U.S. Senator and fellow University of ...

The City of St. Jude Parish hosted thousands of Civil Rights marchers amid a push for justice in the segregated 1960s South.

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil ...

The U.S. Civil Rights Trail highlights local establishments that have a history. In Nashville, Black businesses like Swett’s, Slim and Husky’s Pizza and Alkebu-Lan Images bookstore are highlighted ...

As the nation reflects on the life and legacy of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, educators and students in Atlanta say his passing is ...

Kickstarted by donation of documents from Rep. James Clyburn, the center now captures stories from all facets of South Carolina’s civil rights history.