The fight for civil rights is not in the past, said Sharon Geuea Jones, lobbyist and civil rights attorney with the Jones Advocacy Group. Jones was the keynote speaker Monday for the annual Martin ...

Partnership strengthens efforts to maintain historical records as funding decreases ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Civil rights attorney James Cook in Minneapolis, just hours after Alex Pretti was killed by federal agents. (Caroline Yang/For The ...

Born from his civil rights work with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the product of two separate organizations fighting for social justice, economic opportunity and equal rights, Rev. Jesse Jackson, ...

By Bianca Flowers, Kat Stafford and Disha Raychaudhuri Feb 18 (Reuters) - Among an outpouring of tributes following the death of U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, rights advocates vowed to ...

SALT LAKE CITY — The fight for justice and civil rights is far from over, nearly 48 years after the death of Martin Luther King Jr. Speakers at an event on Monday at the state Capitol in Salt Lake ...

A new Mississippi Freedom Trail marker honors three civil-rights lawyers: R. Jess Brown, Carsie Hall Sr. and Jack Young Sr. The lawyers' Farish Street offices served as a legal headquarters for ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson, a civil rights icon and two-time presidential candidate, has died at 84. Mississippi leaders share their ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – The first homes were holes in the ground. Emma Ray remembered them clearly — dugouts scraped into the earth after emancipation, brush houses stitched together with whatever could be ...

Reverend Jesse Jackson, a prominent civil rights leader and two-time presidential candidate, has died at the age of 84, ...

How do you find the missing? If you do find them, how can you help? Oakland civil rights attorney James Cook has been on the ground in Minnesota for months figuring out answers to these question as he ...