Community leaders said they hope our elected officials use this tragedy to unite us and not further divide us.

Maj. Gen. Joseph McNeil, a Wilmington native whose sit-ins with the Greensboro Four helped spark the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, has died. McNeil passed away on Thursday, Sept. 4 at the age of ...

McNeil was a member of the Greensboro Four, whose 1960 sit-in at a Woolworth's lunch counter helped spark the civil rights movement. He was a decorated U.S. Air Force veteran who served in Vietnam and ...

Wilmington native and Civil Rights icon Major General Joseph McNeil has died at 83. He was one of four Black freshmen from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University who staged a ...

BREWTON, Ala. -- Civil rights icon Rev. H.K. Matthews was laid to rest Friday. He passed away last week at age 97. A funeral service was held at Zion Fountain AME Zion Church in Brewton, Alabama.

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 ...

Major Gen. Joseph McNeil, one of the four black college freshmen who staged the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in in Greensboro, North Carolina, died Thursday at 83, North Carolina A&T State ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Gen. Joseph McNeil, one of the historic “A&T Four” who helped spark the sit-in movement that changed the course of the civil rights era, has died. On Feb. 1, 1960, four freshmen ...

The Rev. H. K. Matthews was larger than life, one of the giants of the civil rights movement in Florida. He accomplished so many big things in his 97 years, it’s a tall task to list them all. But we ...

Hours before the pews filled with mourners Monday at Union Baptist Church in Hempstead, Kangisi McNeil shared one last moment with his late grandfather. McNeil, 26, unfurled a quilt emblazoned with a ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — A Civil Rights icon who shaped history from a lunch counter in Greensboro has died. Major General Joseph McNeil, a Wilmington native, died at the age of 83, North Carolina ...