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 ...

A close associate of Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis, he was involved in many of the key moments of the Black freedom ...

Bernard LaFayette, who died March 5, was instrumental in the organization of students across Nashville to protest segregated ...

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

Inquirer staff report The Kentucky Wesleyan College NAACP chapter and Black Student Union will host civil rights leader and ...

Danny Lyon was a student at the University of Chicago in the summer of 1962, when he photographed a sit-in on the campus. The sit-in was organized by current U.S. Senator and fellow University of ...

A shadowy political action committee opposing Virginia’s April 21 redistricting referendum is facing sharp criticism after ...

National civil rights leaders, community members, and visitors gathered to reflect on Jackson’s decades of work in the movement and the impact he left on generations of activists.

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil ...

Friends honor civil rights trailblazer and the former mayor as he turns 94, celebrating his lifelong impact on the city and the world ...

More than six decades after the marches that helped change the course of American history, some of the people who helped lead ...

Kickstarted by donation of documents from Rep. James Clyburn, the center now captures stories from all facets of South Carolina’s civil rights history.