He was a leader of the Selma Voting Rights movement ... event is considered the largest MLK luncheon in the U.S. LaFayette, 84, is an icon in the civil rights movement. Beyond his work organizing ...

(WOWT) - On Saturday, the Women of Color Network will host a free screening of the film “Dying to Vote” at its bi-annual luncheon in Omaha. It’s the story of civil rights leader Vernon ...

Barr, a human rights attorney, leader and maker of an Emmy-award-winning documentary film, will give the keynote speech at the 34th annual Human Rights Awareness and Award Luncheon on April 22.

According to The Daytona Beach News-Journal, there will also be a luncheon and a program featuring ... and a mentor to civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Thurman was also noted for being ...

RIO RANCHO — A former Stanford University history professor who saw Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. give his famous “I Have a Dream” speech and later published the slain civil rights leader’s ...

Instead, the latest work from Tony-winning playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins trains its lens on a family with deep roots in the American civil rights movement grappling with the impact of that ...

Ambassador Young has a distinguished career as a civil rights leader, congressman, UN ambassador, and mayor of Atlanta. He endorsed the Anderson University and Good for All Higher Education ...

Dr. Hazel Dukes, an iconic civil rights leader and president of the NAACP New York State Conference, has died at age 92. Dukes died peacefully Saturday morning, Ronald Dukes, her son, said in a ...

his steadfast courage during civil rights marches and the deep, resonant timbre of his voice that could stir the soul. Reed was a leader of the Milwaukee Commandos, a security unit of young Black ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul ‒ whom Dukes administered the oath of office ‒ said she was with the civil rights leader during her final days. "She called me her daughter. That means the world to ...

You can follow them on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter (or X). Longtime justice/civil rights activist and columnist Wilfredo “Wil” Rojas died on April 5 at his home in Mickleton. He was 73.