As the celebration of his legacy and hope for the future continues in Jackson, on Friday, local and national journalists shared the power of storytelling and civil rights.WLBT’s own Howard Ballou was ...

Ella Josephine Baker (1903-1986) worked across five decades as an African-American civil rights and human rights activist in the United States.

Ella Baker, the mother of the civil rights movement, was a key strategist in empowering young activists and co-founding the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

He plays an important role in bringing that stuff into the Civil Rights Movement, ... Ella Baker, and so many other people. I think the same methodology that allows for us to say, ‘Hey, ...

Civil rights activist Diane Nash once spoke about the civil rights movement as powered by agape—a love for humanity that drives us to justice. Now, that same spirit calls us forward.

Peter Johnson remembers the women of the civil rights movement. ... Coretta Scott King, Dorothy Height, Ella Baker, Claudette Colvin, Johnnie Carr, Mattie Nash, ...

“They made sure we learned about civil rights leaders, including lawyers like Thurgood Marshal and Constance Baker Motley,” Harris said. “Those who battled in the courtroom to make real the ...

Ella Baker Portrait of American Civil Rights activist Ella Baker (1903 - 1986), the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) Hatfield representative, as she sits behind a ...

Bernice Johnson Reagon, an American civil rights activist who used her stirring alto and lyrics to fight racism, died on Tuesday at age 81, her daughter said on Wednesday.

Ella Baker was a 20th century civil rights advocate. (Ella Baker Center for Human Rights) Ella Baker, a civil rights activist, played a pivotal role in ending Jim Crow in the U.S.