The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute has multiple events planned leading up to Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. On Saturday, the BCRI team is inviting those interested ...

In 1963, during the height of the Civil Rights Movement, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and his colleagues at the Southern ...

A community-based initiative will be aimed at honoring 33 African-Americans who were killed because of racial violence in Jefferson County from the mid-19th through ...

Martin Luther King Jr., the Atlanta native who became one of the most important figures in the civil rights movement, helped ...

Miami-Dade County Commissioner Oliver G. Gilbert III is offering a select group of high school students the opportunity to ...

Martin Luther King Jr. was a trailblazing civil rights activist with a soaring vision for a just America. As a Baptist ...

Charles Person was just 18 when he volunteered to join the Freedom Riders, who faced violent racism on their journey to ...

For Mr. Person, the campaign was an illustration of the power of nonviolence and collective action. It was also a deeply ...

In 1961, he and 12 other civil rights activists were nearly killed for trying to integrate interstate bus terminals across ...

The lawyers formally incorporated the SPLC in 1971, and civil rights activist Julian Bond was named the first president. Dees and Levin began seeking nationwide support for their work. People from ...

Andrew Young, a diplomat, civil ... in Alabama. A civil rights leader, diplomat, and politician he is. Young was a key ally of Martin Luther King Jr. and played a central role in such pivotal civil ...

Charles Person, known as the youngest of the original 13 Freedom Riders, has died at 82. He passed away peacefully at his ...