Martin Luther King Jr. is the first name that comes to mind when thinking of the Civil Rights Movement, in which African ...

On Jan. 30, 1972, 13 unarmed civil rights demonstrators were shot dead in Londonderry, Northern Ireland by British Army paratroopers, which eventually became known as “Bloody Sunday.” After mounting ...

For Charles Person and Thomas Gaither, 1961 was an eventful year in their young lives. Person was 18 and became the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, and Gaither was 22 when he introduced the ...

Picking up from the account in Solidarity 731 of how the 1960s civil rights movement in Northern Ireland led to a bloody ...

Garvey was convicted of mail fraud in 1923. President Joe Biden has posthumously pardoned civil rights leader Marcus Garvey, who was convicted of mail fraud over 100 years ago. The outgoing ...

Martin Luther King’s legacy is intact as the greatest African American leader of all time ... King’s importance in the civil rights struggle in Northern Ireland; he was "an enormously powerful ...

The concurrent events have been met with mixed feelings by civil rights leaders, who broadly reviled Trump's rhetoric and stances on race and civil rights during his third presidential campaign. But ...

and Fort Worth’s “grandmother of Juneteenth” and East Texas native Opal Lee took advantage of the occasion to call on the incoming chief executive to live up to the civil rights leader’s ...

Rev. Dr. Derek King, the nephew of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was also be featured as the parade's grand marshal. After the parade, attendees were invited to experience ...

It’s a disquieting contrast for some civil rights advocates who wish to fulfill the late reverend’s dream of non-violent social revolution.

The Florida Civil Rights Museum held an inaugural fundraising gala Thursday night at Tallahassee State College’s Student Union Ballroom to honor 10 living legends and induct 22 leaders from the ...

The civil rights leader was standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel when he was killed by a rifle bullet on April 4, 1968. James Earl Ray pleaded guilty to the killing and was sentenced to ...