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 ...

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

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 ...

A gala honoring civil rights icon, former Atlanta mayor and former United States Ambassador Andrew Young will be held on Monday evening. The event will celebrate Young's legacy and decades of ...

Officials in Scottish Government putting up ‘considerable resistance’ to proposal they work from the office for two days a ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since then, Bridges has become an inspirational speaker and icon of the Civil Rights movement. General admission tickets to hear Bridges speak are $10 and can be purchased online , three tickets ...

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 ...