Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in ...

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Sixty years after John Lewis and hundreds of Civil Rights activists were beaten by the Alabama State Police, thousands returned to Selma and the Edmund Pettus Bridge to remember one of the bloodiest ...

A civil rights activist who ran for president twice and became a Democratic power broker, Jackson is an American political ...

A public memorial service bursting with choral music and the Berklee College of Music’s Nebulous String Quartet, with Stevie ...

Musical performances featured in a memorial ceremony for Grammy-winning singer and pianist Roberta Flack in New York.

Sheyann Webb-Christburg was 8 years old when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. attempted to lead hundreds in a march from Selma ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson holds his son's hand at the Tabernacle Baptist Church during the 60th anniversary of the march to ...

The civil rights icon found himself in Birmingham delivering a message worthy of his days stumping for justice alongside the ...

The lockout was the only indication Jesse Laslovich got that his roughly two-and-a-half years as Montana's U.S. Attorney was at an end. Laslovich was one of roughly 20 Biden-appointed U.S ...

Late of Toowoomba, passed away on 22nd February 2025, aged 89 years. Dearly loved Husband of Coral. Much loved Father of Fiona, Greg and Trystan. Son of Leonard and Violet (dec'd). Brother of ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson right, embraces Fred Hampton Jr., left, after a vigil for Laquan McDonald, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015, in Chicago. Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke was charged Tuesday with ...