A South Alabama woman has been sentenced to a year in prison for hanging racially offensive homemade dolls on her Black neighbors’ fence in an attempt to get them to move.
Emmett Till, the Black teenager whose abduction, torture and killing in Mississippi in 1955 helped propel the Civil Rights Movement, is now an American story, not just a civil rights story, said Till’s cousin.
Rev. Jesse Jackson plans to step down from leading the Chicago civil rights organization Rainbow PUSH Coalition he founded in 1971.
The life of Alabama native, civil rights leader and Georgia Congressman John Lewis is being remembered with a new postage stamp.
The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 has died in hospice care in Louisiana.
A street corner in Montgomery that is a part of the city’s civil rights history is getting a spruce-up.
The life and legacy of Georgia Congressman John Lewis was remembered Friday in Montgomery.
President Joe Biden is set to pay tribute to the heroes of “Bloody Sunday,” joining thousands for the annual commemoration of the Bridge Crossing Jubilee in Selma.
Selma is preparing to welcome thousands of people for the annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee, which pays tribute to Bloody Sunday and the Selma-to-Montgomery civil rights marches of 1965.
A historic Selma church that hosted the first mass meeting of the 1960s voting rights movement is receiving a $750,000 grant to help preserve the site.
