On Feb. 28, the activist group People’s Union USA organized a 24-hour “economic blackout.” The group called upon people to ...

Eig said the “watering down” of King’s radical message is intentional, noting that King’s close friend Harry Belafonte believed the national holiday was designed to destroy King’s power — the holiday ...

Over the years, our country’s tragedies and triumphs have been written in Jesse Jackson’s determined brow, silent tears and his greying head bowed in prayer.

Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in ...

The protesters of the civil rights movement didn’t just show up. They planned for every eventuality. It’s a lesson that’s starkly relevant today.

A person takes a photo of the march over the Edmund Pettus bridge during the 60th anniversary of the march to ensure that ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Rev. Al Sharpton, Rep. Jonathan Jackson (D-Ill ...

Alabama this weekend is marking the 60th anniversary of a key event in the civil rights movement, when voting rights marchers were attacked in Selma on March 7, 1965. The ...

Worried about the future, marchers crossed the Edmund Pettis Bridge on Sunday in the 60th commemoration of one of the most ...

SELMA — Sheyann Webb-Christburg was eight years old when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. attempted to lead hundreds ... Maxine Waters, D-California; civil rights activist Al Sharpton; civil rights ...