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 ...

Community members packed the auditorium at the International Civil Rights Center & Museum on Sunday to honor the life and ...

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

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

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 ...

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

National civil rights leaders, community members, and visitors gathered to reflect on Jackson’s decades of work in the movement and the impact he left on generations of activists.

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

Williams’ chronicle would be more enriching by addressing presumed truths that are far from self-evident, for example, what differentiates the second civil rights movement from the first?

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