Civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump is calling for the expansion of crisis intervention programs as new data shows police ...

The movement was civil and voting rights for Black Americans, and the subject was Vivian. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called him the greatest preacher he had ever seen. President Barack Obama ...

Amiri and Wenger were among 14 ex-East Contra Costa law enforcement official charged with crimes ranging from violent civil rights abuses to accepting cheap tequila as traffic ticket bribes.

It's been 60 years since the historic Civil Rights March in Selma, Alabama. Protesters demanded equal voting rights for African Americans. State troopers met those calls with shocking violence.

Ruth Brown Anthony can still remember the violence that transpired on "Bloody Sunday" in Selma, Alabama, 60 years ago when ...

a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement when a peaceful protest turned violent. This marks the first time Little Rock has participated in this national remembrance of African American history.

The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s layoffs, effectively gutting an office that already faced a backlog of thousands of complai ...

Modern day civil rights activists are working to fight poverty and violence in the city that gave birth to the Voting Rights Act 60 years ago.