Civil rights leaders

As a passionate black woman, I plan to join a variety of NAACP-type organizations when possible. I want to help bring justice to the community for younger, and older indiiduals.

Family members, authors and investigators call for « Truth in Reconciliation »-style inquest into the 1960s killings of RFK, MLK, Malcolm X and JFK.

US Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights legend and longtime congressman, died at the age of 80 on July 17.

Take this World History quiz at Encyclopaedia Britannica to test your knowledge of the American civil rights movement.

On this day in 1955, Rosa Parks took her fateful bus ride in Montgomery, Alabama.

1967- Martin Luther King Jr. delivers an antiwar speech at UC Berkeley — his last large-scale public address in the Bay Area. Titled “America’s Chief Moral Dilemma,” he tells the crowd gathered in front of Sproul Hall that “You, in a real sense, have been the conscience of the academic community and our nation.” | Martin Luther King Jr. on the Sproul steps, May 17, 1967. Photo by Helen Nestor.

In honor of his leadership, legacy, and faith, we take this week to remember and celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.

Moviegoers filling theaters this week to see “Selma,” the new docudrama about one of the key battles of the civil rights movement, may come across a name they don’t recognize. That is an injustice.…

The congressman and civil-rights legend died on Friday. He recently spoke with Zak Cheney-Rice about why he stayed the course.