We remember Russell for his 11 titles, but the world remembers him for what he did to support the struggle for civil rights.

The mayoral wannabe appeared to be on a Zzz train through the last half of the two-hour service that kicked off at 10 a.m. at Mother AME Zion Church in Harlem for Dukes, the former president of the ...

Photographer Andrew Feiler documented the last remaining Rosenwald Schools built to educate Black children during segregation ...

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

Sixty years after Bloody Sunday, the SPLC honors 40 civil rights martyrs with a ceremony focused on today’s fight to preserve ...

Iowa’s Republican Governor Kim Reynolds signed into law a bill ending civil rights protections based on gender identity, becoming the first state to repeal civil rights protections for ...

Join the Brevard Veterans Memorial Center in Celebrating Veterans and other honorable divisions with events across Brevard. BREVARD COUNTY • FLORIDA — Join the Brevard Veterans Memorial Center ...

Other locations include a historic drive-in, Detroit's Hart Plaza, and a Caro home packed with then-cutting edge technology.

and ordered county flags to be flown at half staff until her burial “as a memorial to a great leader.” “Hazel Dukes was an internationally known Civil Rights leader and held important ...

Sen. Arthenia Joyner speaks during the “Homegoing” memorial service for Geraldine Thompson, a longtime Florida lawmaker and civil-rights leader, at the Majestic Life Church in Orlando ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The Supreme Court is seen in the distance, framed through columns of the U.S. Senate at the Capitol in ...

Iowa Republicans are seeking to remove gender identity as a protected class in the state's civil rights act, ending 18 years of protection from discrimination for transgender Iowans. House ...