These Black activists fought for civil rights over decades. Here are their warnings, and advice, for American protesters ...

Civil rights activist Bernard Lafayette, who helped organize the Selma Voting Rights Movement in the 1960s, died March 5, 2026, at age 85. In this 1980 "Sunday Morning" report by Ted Holmes, Lafayette ...

Think you know all about the fight for civil rights? Think again! This is the untold story of the people who campaigned for a fairer America. Untold is a free collection of short, compelling, history ...

Community members packed the auditorium at the International Civil Rights Center & Museum on Sunday to honor the life and ...

The Paralympic Flame was born from the fire that burns beside Dr. Martin King Jr.'s tomb — A symbolic connection linking two ...

These Black activists fought for civil rights over decades. Here are their warnings, and advice, for American protesters today.

A newly published database includes hundreds of plaques, signs and pamphlets the National Park Service has flagged for review ...

President Trump also remembers Jackson as a "force of nature" with "lots of personality, grit and street smarts".

A new Iowa law bans local nondiscrimination protections on the basis of gender identity after the state became the first in the U.S. to rollback its civil rights code last year. The preemption law ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a towering civil rights leader whose moral vision and fiery oratory reshaped the Democratic Party and America, has died at age 84. His son, Jesse Jackson Jr., told CNN that his ...

Six sites across Virginia, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Florida join the U.S. Civil Rights Trail, including a courthouse tied to Loving v. Virginia.