For nearly a century, civil rights activist Xernona Clayton has dedicated her life to serving her community. Clayton, 95, ...

She was attacked by mounted police officers on "Bloody Sunday" in Selma. Her efforts, along with "Bloody Sunday," were significant in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Amelia Boynton Robinson, born in Savannah, Ga. is a civil rights icon who impacted the lives of people across the nation.

Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, whose life sentence for killing two FBI agents was commuted by then-President Biden, has ...

Indigenous activists who maintain his innocence celebrated the release as a decades-overdue victory, while law enforcement ...

The commutation, praised by advocates who say Peltier was a political prisoner, prompted criticism from some who say Peltier ...

Peltier, who has always maintained his innocence in the killing of two FBI agents 50 years ago, was released Tuesday from a federal prison in Florida.