Even the best pitcher on the team loses their fastball eventually,” one Democrat said of civil rights icon Eleanor Holmes ...

Civil rights and education activist Willa Cofield sits in her kitchen at home in Plainfield, New Jersey, on Wednesday, July 19, 2023. Steve Hockstein | For NJ Advance ...

Though the Rev. James Lawson's nonviolent activism helped desegregate Nashville's lunch counters 55 years ago, the civil rights icon said Tennessee and the United States must do more to live up to ...

Ruby Bridges became a civil rights icon when she was 6. Yet she didn't realize it for decades. The world knows her as the little girl in Norman Rockwell's famous 1963 painting, The Problem We All ...

Major works of James Baldwin American writer and Civil Rights activist James Baldwin (1924 – 1987) at the Whitehall Hotel, Bloomsbury Square, London. (Photo by Jenkins/Getty Images) ...

Although her actions led to the civil rights act passed in 1964, the work does not stop there. Parks’ niece, Sheila McCauley ...

LaFayette, 84, is an icon in the civil rights movement. Beyond his work organizing the historic sit-ins in Nashville, he took part in the Freedom Rides, which protested segregation in interstate ...

Murray — who would go on to become an icon in the struggles for civil, women’s and LGBTQ+ rights — moved into the home at the age of 3. They lived there, in Durham’s historic West End ...

The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) has added a statue of civil rights icon John Lewis to its Legacy Plaza in Montgomery. The plaza, which occupies a city block across the street from the EJI’s ...

Durham is mourning the loss of Civil Rights icon Dr. E. Lavonia Allison, who passed away at 94 years old. Posted 1/9/2025, 4:33:33 AM Updated 1/9/2025, 12:59:22 PM ...

The granddaughter of Civil Rights icons Medgar and Myrlie Evers is missing. Nicole Evers-Everette hasn't been heard from since September 22.