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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Reverend James Peters Jr., a beloved spiritual leader and prominent Civil Rights activist. For Pastor Eugene Downing, who currently leads New Hope, the loss of Peters has been a deeply personal one.

Peters, Jr., a civil rights activist and friend of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., passed away Saturday. He was 92 years old. His death was announced by community leader Sylvia Morgan-Smith.

And so it was very, I mean, it was extremely active. - [Beatrice] In the spring of 1963, a prominent civil rights leader led dozens of protestors on a four-mile march from Johnson C. Smith's ...

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.