Over the years, our country’s tragedies and triumphs have been written in Jesse Jackson’s determined brow, silent tears and ...

She and Noel Furie had just come out as lesbians when they opened an unusual gathering place for women in Connecticut. Nearly ...

Thousands gathered in Selma, Alabama to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday and advocate for voting rights.

Worried about the future, marchers crossed the Edmund Pettis Bridge on Sunday in the 60th commemoration of one of the most ...

Alabama this weekend is marking the 60th anniversary of a key event in the civil rights movement, when voting rights marchers ...

"People are afraid," Selma's mayor told more than 30 Congress members at the start of a weekend of remembrance.

Democracy needs defending. This generation has a rendezvous to cross its Edmund Pettus Bridge. Let them take inspiration from ...

Hundreds gathered Sunday in Selma, Alabama to mark the 60th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday," when a group of peaceful ...

Brenda Haywood, a former member of Nashville's Metro Council, was 14 years old in 1965 when civil rights activists were ...