An osteopath in Albany, Ga., he drew national attention, and the involvement of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., for his efforts to end segregation.

Smith’s family hosted a public visitation, giving community members, former mentees, public officials and longtime friends an ...

He participated in picket lines, sit-ins and Freedom Rides, endured jailings and beatings and stood up to U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy.

Shavon Arline-Bradley, Fred D. Gray, Nneka Ogwumike and Bakari Sellers are the National Civil Rights Museum Freedom Award honorees for 2026.

President Donald Trump praised Rev. Jesse Jackson as “a good man, with lots of personality, grit and ‘street smarts’” as politicians, journalists and activists paid tribute to the late civil rights ...

Selma's Edistone Hotel has witnessed pivotal chapters in American history, from Reconstruction to "Bloody Sunday." Now, after years of neglect and a recent wall collapse, the Conservation Fund is work ...

Thousands of protesters are expected to rally on the National Mall on Friday in support of voting rights and racial justice ahead of the midterm election. The event follows a Supreme Court ...

Barbara Henderson, a civil rights leader who helped integrate and transform Norman, died Saturday. She was 92. Born Barbara Ann Beard in 1933, she came from a middle-class family who owned a home in ...

Steinem was one of the leading faces of the American women's rights movement in the late 20th century and beyond.

"We're still in the struggle to save Black men's bodies and White men's souls," Andrew Young says ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — It’s been more than six decades since the Civil Rights Movement started to change America, as a result of the hard work and sacrifices of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and many ...

The recent death of civil rights Jerome "Big Duck" Smith reminds us that our state is home to many legends of the civil ...