Black victims are usually forgotten footnotes of history.

Thirty-five students from four high schools in Atlanta spent the last three days traveling through Alabama as part of the annual John Lewis Student Civil Rights Pilgrimage.

Over 60 years ago on March 20, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the Alabama National Guard to supervise and protect a civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery.

Atlanta honored Rev. Dr. Ralph David Abernathy, Sr.'s 100th birthday Sunday, uniting leaders and community members at West ...

Rev. Bernard Lafayette authored “one of the finest accounts of just what it meant to be a SNCC field worker in June of 1963 from Selma, Ala.” ...

The phrase “God of Small Things” often evokes the idea that the divine does not manifest only in grand miracles, temples, or world-changing events.

George Lombard Jr. has been influenced, and "inspired," by Posy Lombard, a woman he never met. She died 20 years before he was born.

A month after the civil rights icon’s death at age 84, Jesse Jackson still has not gotten his due. Michael Eric Dyson pays tribute ...

An Oscar nomination almost feels like an afterthought, according to the directors of “The Alabama Solution.” The critically acclaimed film is up for best documentary feature at the 98th Annual Academy ...

Born on March 17, 1919 in Montgomery, Alabama, Nat King Cole was much more than just a famous singer; he was a musical ...

Rev Jesse Jackson and Larry Hamm, at 2016 Democratic Convention, in Philadelphia. Recently, representing the People’s Organization For Progress I attended the funeral of civil rights leader Rev Jesse ...

On Monday night, Dec. 5, 1955, the Rev. Robert Graetz worked his way through a dense crowd of 6,000 people at Holt Street ...