Guilford County students honor legacy of the A&T Four civil rights activists
On February 1, 1960, four Black students at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University took a stand against segregation.
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Children's MLK Read-In event at Wake Forest University to promote activism and literacy
Wake Forest University is hosting its 14th annual Read-In Day on Jan. 21st to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy and promote literacy.
Why the Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame is headed to this small Mississippi Delta town
Marks, Mississippi, is where Martin Luther King Jr. chose in 1968 as the starting point for his Poor People's Campaign, which demanded economic justice for poor Americans of all backgrounds.
A new system to flag racist incidents and acts of hate is named after Emmett Till
The Emmett Till Alerts will be sent to Black elected officials across Maryland — along with national civil rights organizations, clergy members and other leaders.
Judge: NC health plan must cover transgender treatments
The North Carolina state employee health plan unlawfully discriminates by excluding treatments for transgender people by refusing to pay for hormone therapy and surgeries, as it once did briefly, a
A civil rights memorial in Alabama expands to document lynching victims' stories
The Equal Justice Initiative addresses America's history of racial violence at a time when state lawmakers nationwide have been trying to limit teaching about divisive topics in public schools.
After more than a century of trying, Congress passes an anti-lynching bill
Passage of the legislation to make lynching a federal crime is a major milestone after more than 200 attempts to pass such legislation failed over the course of a century.
First Black University of Alabama student dies days after a building is named for her
Autherine Lucy Foster's death comes less than a week after university officials dedicated the campus building where she briefly attended classes in her honor.
Three ex-Minneapolis police officers guilty of violating George Floyd's civil rights
A jury found that Thomas Lane, J. Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao all deprived Floyd of his right to medical care, and that two of them failed to intervene as Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd's neck.