Civil Rights Movement

• U.S. probe into 1955 lynching of Emmett Till ends with no new charges

  Carolyn Bryant Donham was accused of lying about whether Till, a 14-year-old Black boy, ever touched her, which sparked his brutal killing by two white men in Mississippi.

  Crime

  Dec 6, 2021
  
• How this U.S. election compares to other tumultuous votes

  And yet for all the current chaos, the United States has experienced moments like this before, says history professor Ronald Pruessen.

  Commentary

  Oct 24, 2020
  
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• ‘Conscience of Congress’: U.S. lawmakers remember civil rights icon John Lewis

  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called Lewis the “conscience of the Congress” who was “revered and beloved on both sides of the aisle, on both sides of the Capitol.”

  World

  Jul 27, 2020
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• Democratic candidates slam Joe Biden for remarks on segregationist senators

  Joe Biden refused calls to apologize Wednesday for saying that the Senate "got things done" with "civility" even when the body included segregationists with whom he disagreed.

  World

  Jun 19, 2019
• U.S. reopens probe of Emmett Till’s brutal slaying that inspired civil rights movement

  The Justice Department told Congress in a report in March it is reinvestigating Till's slaying in Money, Mississippi, in 1955 after receiving "new information."

  Crime

  Jul 12, 2018
• Dick Gregory, comedian and civil rights activist, dies of heart failure at 84

  Dick Gregory, a comedian who lambasted racism and played a prominent role in the 1960s civil rights movement, died on Saturday at age 84.

  Entertainment

  Aug 20, 2017
• Obama in Selma for 50th anniversary of ‘Bloody Sunday’

  America's racial history "still casts its long shadow upon us," President Barack Obama said Saturday as he stood in solidarity and remembrance with civil rights activists.

  World

  Mar 7, 2015
• Convictions thrown out for ‘Friendship 9’ civil rights activists

  The convictions of nine South Carolina black men who integrated a whites-only lunch counter during the height of the American civil rights movement were tossed out Wednesday.

  Jan 28, 2015
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• From Selma to Ferguson and NYC: ‘This action now is a movement’

  Bernard LaFayette sees parallels between the civil rights movement in the 1960 and what's happening in the wake of the Michael Brown and Eric Garner grand jury decisions.

  World

  Dec 5, 2014