The Alabama State Conference of the NAACP released its schedule for the 2026 NAACP sponsored Selma Jubilee Bridge Crossing Weekend, set for March 6 through March 8 in Montgomery and ...

As U.S. Rep. Steny Hoyer announced he will step down next year after nearly 60 years in public service, he thanked one group of voters dear to his heart.

At 11, she was one of the youngest at the 1965 “Bloody Sunday” voting rights march in Selma, Ala., and was injured while ...

With nearly 100 paintings, sculptures, textiles, and installation works, "In Her Place" features some of Nashville's most prominent women artists across age and medium.

I am somebody! I may be poor, but I am somebody. I may be young, but I am somebody. I may be on welfare, but I am somebody.” ...

By the time Joanne Bland was 11 years old, she had been arrested “at least 13 documented times,” she once wrote. In Selma, ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — With a few months left until the opening of the long-awaited Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, the former president’s words he spoke to commemorate the fight for civil ...

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds ordered flags around the state to be lowered to half-staff on Friday to honor civil rights icon Jesse ...

On October 8th, 1941, Jesse Jackson was born into a world where he could not walk into the same buildings as his white neighbors or check out a book at the local library. He could not go to school ...

When he chose Jackson Park for the location of his landmark presidential center nearly a decade ago, former President Barack ...

Get in good trouble, necessary trouble,” is a quote the late Congressman John Lewis popularized when discussing the history of the Civil Rights movement.