21st annual Martin Luther King Jr. Inspirational Celebration — The YMCA of South Florida will have a Day of Service on Monday, with community projects from 8:30 a.m. to noon at the L.A. Lee YMCA ...

MIAMI – A group of South Florida students stepped into history, visiting some of the most iconic sites of the civil rights movement in a spring break expedition. Leer en español The tour for ...

MLK Day 2025: Honor civil rights leader’s legacy at parades, festivals in South Florida People watch a student marching band perform during Riviera Beach’s 40th annual Dr. Martin Luther King ...

Footage of the 22-year-old man’s arrest has sparked nationwide outrage, with civil rights lawyers accusing authorities of ...

Human Rights Watch documented the stories of 17 current and former detainees at federal facilities in South Florida.

The "Good Trouble" protests will take place on Thursday, July 17, 2025. This is the same day that Rep. John Lewis died five years ago in 2020. He was a major leader in the 1960s civil rights ...

MIAMI — A Florida school district canceled a professor’s civil rights history seminar for teachers, citing in part concerns over “ critical race theory ” — even though his lecture had ...

The Department of Education has opened a civil rights investigation into whether Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) executive order banning mask mandates violates the rights of students with ...

MIAMI – The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida’s Greater Miami Chapter today filed three lawsuits charging that officers of the Miami, Miami-Dade and Broward police departments used excessive ...

The Voting Rights Act is a historic civil rights law that is meant to ensure that the right to vote is not denied on account of race or color. Louisiana passes "grandfather clauses" to keep former ...

Nearly every few weeks in 1961, there was a critical battle for civil rights. Freedom fighters adopted new tactics and launched new campaigns, such as the jail, no bail strategy that put financial ...