LOS ANGELES (AP) — Immigrant-rights advocates asked a federal judge to order the release of parents separated from their children at the border, as dozens of demonstrators decrying the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown were arrested Tuesday at a rally ahead of a Los Angeles appearance by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The court action was brought […]
The home where civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks once lived will be auctioned off.
ATLANTA (AP) — Dorothy Cotton, who worked closely with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., taught nonviolence to demonstrators before marches and sometimes calmed tensions by singing church hymns, has died. She was 88. Cotton died Sunday afternoon at the Kendal at Ithaca retirement community in New York, said Jared Harrison, a close friend […]
While President John F. Kennedy became a symbol of civil rights after his assassination, that wasn’t always the case for the former U.S. Senator and Congressman. On this day in 1963, President Kennedy delivered his famous” Report to the American People on Civil Rights” address on radio and television, which led to the signing of the […]
Freedom Rider George Raymond The goals of the courageous “Freedom Riders,” a collective of Black and white civil rights activists who rode buses into the deep South to protest segregation on bus lines, faced major odds in the early ’60’s. On this day in 1961, 27 riders were arrested amid a warning from then Attorney […]
While the late Coretta Scott King will forever be undoubtedly tethered to her famous husband, the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., she became just as vital to the ascension of civil rights. The activist and author’s birthday is today. Coretta Scott was born on this day in 1927, growing up in Marion, Alabama. […]
Vel Phillips, a civil rights activist from Wisconsin known for becoming the first African-American judge in Milwaukee has died at the age of 94. Phillips was an instrumental part in knocking down walls of racial inequality in the state of Wisconsin according to The Wisconsin State Journal. An HBCU alum of Howard University, Phillips became the […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Yvonne Staples, (pictured, far right) whose voice and business acumen powered the success of the Staple Singers, has died at age 80. The Chicago funeral home Leak and Sons says she died Tuesday at her home in Chicago. Staples’ family gospel group had a string of Top 40 hits in the late 1960s, […]
Linda Brown, one of the children at the center of the landmark “Brown v. Topeka Board of Education” case, has passed. In adulthood, Brown became an educator and activist, fighting against school segregation well after the U.S. Supreme Court decision. Brown was born February 21, 1942 in Topeka, Kansas. The local NAACP recruited 13 parents […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Gruesome images of a lynched Emmett Till were seared into the minds of many black Americans in 1955 and helped lead to the modern civil rights movement. But few whites knew of their existence at the time. That reality is at the top of NBC’s two-hour documentary about how images propelled […]
The U.S. Department of Education launched a civil rights investigation of the Cedar Rapid, Iowa school district.
ATLANTA (AP) — Martin Luther King Jr.’s children and the pastor of an Atlanta church where he preached decried disparaging remarks President Donald Trump is said to have made about African countries, while protests between Haitian immigrants and Trump supporters broke out near the president’s Florida resort Monday, the official federal holiday honoring King. At […]
