ATLANTA -- The Rev. C.T. Vivian, a civil rights veteran who worked alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and served as head of the organization co-founded by the civil rights icon, has died.

Wilmington native and civil rights icon Maj. Gen. Joseph McNeil has died at 83. He was one of four Black freshmen from North Carolina A&T State University who staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth ...