A street corner on Detroit's west side now bears the name of a lesser-known civil rights activist whose work during the Selma Voting Rights Marches cost her her life. City and state officials on ...

What was born there was a new definition of who gets to be an American. And that legacy is under threat. We went back to Selma, Alabama, this year—not as dignitaries or guests at a ceremony, but as ...

A man was hit and killed by a vehicle early Sunday morning in Johnston County. Emergency responders told WRAL News the crash occurred before sunrise at 6:30 a.m., saying a driver hit the man on ...

A new event series in Montgomery looks to showcase the deeper culture within the city with the launch of the Street Market Trail. Some of the top chefs in the state are teaming up for a dinner with ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led a civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama on March 21, 1965. Rare deals from ...

SELMA, Ala. (WCSC) — Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a civil rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state’s capital in Montgomery on this day in 1965. Nearly 3,000 people participated in the ...

Bernard Lafayette Jr., a central figure in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s who helped desegregate Nashville, Tennessee, lunch counters; was imprisoned in Mississippi as part of the Freedom ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Some local leaders are back in town after joining thousands for a march in Selma over the weekend. Okaloosa traffic stop leads to meth trafficking arrest in Northwest Florida: ...

SELMA, Ala. — Sixty-one years after state troopers attacked Civil Rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, thousands gathered in the Alabama city this weekend amid new concerns about the ...

SELMA, Ala. -- Sixty-one years after state troopers attacked civil rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, thousands gathered in the Alabama city this weekend amid new concerns about the ...

A close associate of Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis, he was involved in many of the key moments of the Black freedom struggle in the 1960s. By Clay Risen Bernard Lafayette Jr., a central figure ...