The Roanoke Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is commemorating the March 7, 1965, March for Voting Rights at 4 p.m. Friday at the Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza on Henry Street.

While discrimination is alive and well, I have seen many advances over the years in the rights of minorities, families with ...

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery march—one of the most defining moments in the U.S. civil ...

Sen. Booker's stirring and eloquent display of endurance and passion gave Democrats and Americans the gameplan for combating ...

Movie buffs will be in seventh heaven with the Nyack International and JCC Jewish Film Festivals. Indivisible Rockland ...

The National Civil Rights Museum will host a ceremony to commemorate the 57th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s ...

Friday marks the anniversary of the assassination of the late civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who was killed in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968.

George Wallace, break up a demonstration march in Selma, Ala., March 7, 1965, on what became known as "Bloody Sunday." (AP Photo, File) FILE - Amelia Boynton is aided by people after she was ...

The trial of a former British paratrooper accused of the murder of two men on Bloody Sunday is to start on September 15th. “Soldier F”, who cannot be identified, is accused of murdering James ...

BELFAST - The sole British soldier charged with murder over the 1972 'Bloody Sunday' killings of 13 unarmed Catholic civil rights marchers in Northern Ireland will face trial in September ...

Democratic Sen. Cory Booker ended his record-setting speech the same way he started it more than 25 hours earlier: by ...