He led more than 600 peaceful protestors across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma to march for voting rights. The group was attacked by Alabama State Troopers in what would be known as "Bloody Sunday.

TALLAHASSEE — Sen. Geraldine Thompson, a long-serving legislator and “trailblazing” civil-rights leader from Central Florida, died after complications from knee surgery, her family announced Thursday.

February is Black History Month, and 7News is speaking to experts about some noteworthy and historic African Americans figures that impacted the D.C.-area.Mary ...

A Shreveport pastor and civil rights leader passed away Monday. Calvin Austin III, died Feb. 3 at Willis Knighton Health ...

The death of Ruth Ann Butler sent shockwaves through the Upstate as political figures McMaster and White offer condolences to ...

Sharpton became notable for his response to injustice in New York City streets. The civil rights leader led a march through Howard Beach, Queens, after a white mob beat three Black men.

Civil rights leaders say in each case, officers may have used excessive force. "What we wanted to emphasize is we were concerned about what we saw," said Tim Stevens, the chairman and CEO of B-PEP.

I can imagine King looking down from heaven and singing Marvin Gaye ... The late Benjamin E. Mays, a leader in the civil rights movement, said: “He who starts behind in the great race of ...

Music clearly played a starring role in the civil rights movement ... weaving the gospel song into the cultural fabric as a song leader at the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee.

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 ...

At that time, some S.N.C.C. leaders believed that the Justice Department was advising concentration on voter registration to divert civil-rights groups from the more explosive field of direct ...

WASHINGTON — On Wednesday, more than a dozen human and civil rights leaders gathered for a roundtable in downtown DC to address President Donald Trump’s Executive Orders regarding the federal ...