Decades after his efforts changed the Minneapolis Fire Department, city leaders want to keep Ron Edwards' legacy alive.

After three former Memphis police officers were acquitted Wednesday in the beating death of Tyre Nichols, community and civil rights leaders expressed outrage over another disappointment in the long ...

A bronze statue of civil rights leader Barbara Rose Johns was unveiled Tuesday at the U.S. Capitol, honoring the teenager who ...

CHICAGO — Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has been hospitalized and is currently under observation for progressive supranuclear palsy, according to the Rainbow PUSH Coalition. Jackson, who is 84 ...

JACKSON, Miss. — More than 60 years after a white supremacist assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers, his daughter still sees the same strain of political violence at work in American society. ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — With the Essence Festival in New Orleans, civil rights leaders sounded the alarm after President Donald Trump signed the budget bill into law at the White House. “What they just ...

The president-elect has pledged to have a Cabinet that "looks like America." President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris met virtually Tuesday with civil rights leaders amid calls ...

Civil rights activist Bishop Rev. William J Barber II and Rev. Jonathan Wilson Hartgrove were among three people arrested Monday in Washington, D.C., while praying in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. The ...

Harris was a founding member of the Atlanta SCLC chapter and known as one of The Freedom Singers. During the height of the ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — A new memorial located in downtown Oklahoma City honors the nation's first civil rights sit-in and civil rights leader Clara Luper. Last month, a new statue honoring Clara Luper was ...

Joe Berman cites failure to respond aggressively to antisemitism on the right, narrowing of focus from broader civil rights ...

Local civil rights organizations are joining forces with the National Urban League to file an amicus brief in support of the ...