For many Americans, Donald Trump’s head-spinning array of executive orders in the early days of his second term look like an ...

As a teen raised in the Rust Belt in the 1960s, Alan Cashaw wasn’t blind to the fact that racism existed. But he also knew ...

She was attacked by mounted police officers on "Bloody Sunday" in Selma. Her efforts, along with "Bloody Sunday," were ...

As part of the successful effort to advance racial equality, many mass gatherings and actions were performed over the ...

In honor of Black History Month, 16 WAPT News is recognizing important figures in Mississippi's history, including Medgar ...

The longtime lawmaker was remembered as a passionate education advocate and a civil rights icon who pushed for African ...

WASHINGTON DC’S NEWLY-APPOINTED AME BISHOP REGINALD T. JACKSON UNITES AFRICAN-AMERICAN FAITH LEADERS FROM ACROSS THE COUNTY, LEADERS FROM THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION AND THE NAACP DEFENSE FUND, ...

Though MacArthur Cotton was critical of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the 82-year-old is even more critical of where things stand with the legislation now.

Apartheid was, first and foremost, a business plan—one that the South African–born Musk seems to be reworking for the modern ...

The Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, was the scene of a major civil rights confrontation in March, 1965, in which ...

Harry T. Moore and his wife Harriette were killed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1951 when a bomb was placed under their home in Mims.

Alabama's congressional map is the subject of a federal trial beginning Monday to decide if the state has to keep a new court ...