Jenkins, now on Broadway under the direction of longtime actress Phylicia Rashad, explores the generational conflicts in the ...

Maxine Smith, Dorothy Truitt Walk and Cornelia Crenshaw were civil rights leaders who challenged injustice and made a ...

Following in her footsteps were the women who made a difference in our city by taking the lead during the Civil Rights Movement. Topping that list is Maxine Smith, who was a brilliant and gutsy ...

As the school voucher debate unfolds this legislative session, both sides have attempted to pick up the mantle of the 20th-century Civil Rights Movement to make their case about subsidizing ...

The name César Chávez is extra special to Kern County, as the years-long grape strike, for which Chávez is often remembered, ...

noting the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties was created after 9/11 “to help ensure that the newly created Department of Homeland Security upholds the Constitution and laws that ...

Propelled a movement': Looking forward and back as the Civil Rights Act turns 60 Dukes was one of few women to lead the NAACP, succeeding Enolia McMillan as president in 1990. She held that ...

ATLANTA — Friday marks 60 years since “Bloody Sunday,” a major turning point in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. On March 7, 1965, hundreds of civil rights advocates, including late ...

Friday marks the 60th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement ... “The Voting Rights Journey” web page where they can see and hear moments from ...

As a member of the civil rights movement, he introduced many to the organization and its mission. In a statement to News 2 on Kimbrough’s legacy and efforts in the Nashville, a representative ...

A production partly aimed at students that highlights Tampa’s history in the civil rights movement lands at a time when the state is changing what schools teach about race and history.