After three former Memphis police officers were acquitted Wednesday in the beating death of Tyre Nichols, community and civil rights leaders expressed outrage over another disappointment in the long ...

The president-elect has pledged to have a Cabinet that "looks like America." President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris met virtually Tuesday with civil rights leaders amid calls ...

WASHINGTON ‒ A coalition of civil rights leaders kicked off a weeklong campaign to rally around the national African American museum and push back against what it calls efforts by the Trump ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — With the Essence Festival in New Orleans, civil rights leaders sounded the alarm after President Donald Trump signed the budget bill into law at the White House. “What they just ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — New details were announced Monday regarding a racial discrimination lawsuit against the Westport Community Improvement District (CID) and its board members. Gwen Grant, president ...

Civil rights activist Bishop Rev. William J Barber II and Rev. Jonathan Wilson Hartgrove were among three people arrested Monday in Washington, D.C., while praying in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. The ...

JACKSON, Miss. — More than 60 years after a white supremacist assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers, his daughter still sees the same strain of political violence at work in American society. ...

Decades after his efforts changed the Minneapolis Fire Department, city leaders want to keep Ron Edwards' legacy alive.

OKLAHOMA CITY — A new memorial located in downtown Oklahoma City honors the nation's first civil rights sit-in and civil rights leader Clara Luper. Last month, a new statue honoring Clara Luper was ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – The Rev. Jesse Jackson has been released from a Chicago hospital where he was treated for a rare neurological disorder, his son said Tuesday. The 84-year-old civil rights leader ...

CHICAGO -- The civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson has been hospitalized, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition announced Wednesday evening. Jackson, 84, has been admitted to the hospital and is under ...

Harris was a founding member of the Atlanta SCLC chapter and known as one of The Freedom Singers. During the height of the ...