The civil rights leader led a march through Howard Beach, Queens, after a white mob beat three Black men. Attorney Ben Crump speaks at a press conference outside the federal courthouse on July ...

Civil rights champions have diverse college journeys. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. may be the most recognized civil rights leader in U.S. history, but across many decades, numerous Black activists ...

The Los Angeles-based athleisure brand is donating proceeds from the collection to Williams’s museum. Cecil Williams in front of a museum display for his famous photograph in Orangeburg, South ...

Civil rights leaders Marc Morial and Janai Nelson discuss why Trump symbolizes "the most significant contradiction" to what MLK stood for, plus how civil rights leaders are mobilizing ahead of the ...

the National Urban League is hosting an "emergency" strategy session and public forum with civil rights leaders. The discussion, dubbed the "Demand Diversity Roundtable," will be held at 11:30 a.m ...

Civil rights leaders and elected officials are seething ... plus they help build a federal government that looks like the diverse population it serves,” said Everett Kelley, national president ...

Julius Garvey said that efforts for a pardon ramped up during the Obama administration, describing how he and family members and advocates hoped that the first Black president would see the value ...

Civil rights leaders this week characterized President Donald Trump’s executive orders ending diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in the federal government as “an attack on ...

Video above: Civil rights activist Medgar Wiley Evers and King of the Blues, B.B. King were given a centennial celebration for all of their contributions to Mississippi.In honor of Black History Month ...

CBS Philadelphia The private cemetery is the final resting place for eight Black soldiers who fought for the Union during the Civil War. "They were men who were colored troops who couldn't be ...

She criticized a controversial law that restricted the way Black history can be taught ... a long-serving legislator and “trailblazing” civil-rights leader from Central Florida, died after ...

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