Posts in category Civil Rights

Image of a black high school student carrying a fatally wounded fellow pupil away from the gunfire of apartheid police in 1976. PHOTO COURTESY OF …

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) _ The University of Southern Mississippi will award a posthumous honorary degree to a black U.S. Army veteran who was rejected when …

PHOTO COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA COMMONS  By MARIA DANILOVA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) _ Black students are suspended from school, expelled and referred to law enforcement …

This new sculpture by Hank Willis Thomas will be part of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and Legacy Museum opening this week in …

Rev. Dr. Samuel B. McKinney, a friend of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. passed away at the age of 91. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE …

Yolanda Renee King, Martin Luther King Jr. Granddaughter ATLANTA – Martin Luther King Jr.’s granddaughter hosted an inspiring group of children who called on their …

F.D. Reese PHOTOS COURTESY OF ALABAMA STATE Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Funeral services to honor the life of civil rights icon Frederick D. Reese …

HOWARD UNIVERSITY STUDENTS END SIT-IN PROTEST WASHINGTON (AP) – The occupation of a university administration building in Washington, D.C. by students making demands to school …

Fifty years after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., American perceptions of progress toward racial equality remain largely divided. PHOTO COURTESY OF HISTORY.COM By …

INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS ICON:Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, dead at 81. PHOTO COURTESY OF BIOGRAPHY.COM By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA Associated Press JOHANNESBURG – Even the name given to Winnie Madikizela-Mandela …