Ripon College student Gary G. Yerkey was among 10 from the college eager to join the march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery ...

In honor of the Selma to Montgomery March, the Montgomery Bicycle Club is planning its 51-mile ride on the route civil rights ...

She was attacked by mounted police officers on "Bloody Sunday" in Selma. Her efforts, along with "Bloody Sunday," were ...

As a teen raised in the Rust Belt in the 1960s, Alan Cashaw wasn’t blind to the fact that racism existed. But he also knew ...

Marian Turski, a Holocaust survivor who became a journalist and historian in postwar Poland and was a co-founder of Warsaw’s ...

This year, many of the conversations surrounding Martin Luther King, Jr. Day have involved the new movie “Selma,” about the historic marches from Selma to Montgomery in Alabama in 1965.

Faith Petric, who died at 98 in 2013, is the subject of “Singing for Justice.” The film screens Feb. 22, 2025, at the Roxie ...

The second film in ARC’s Black Voices Movie Series, “John Lewis: Good Trouble,” directed by Dawn Porter, airs tonight at 7 p.m. at the United Theatre. It offers a glimpse ...

He led more than 600 peaceful protestors across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma to march for voting rights. The group was attacked by Alabama State Troopers in what would be known as "Bloody Sunday.

The 26th annual international Jewish film festival, presented by the Greater Altoona Jewish Federation, starts Feb. 20 and ...

Amelia Boynton Robinson, born in Savannah, Ga. is a civil rights icon who impacted the lives of people across the nation.

As this story is filed on Feb. 18, it is a reminder that on this date in 1965, Malcolm X delivered his final public address at Barnard College, three days before he was assassinated at the Audubon ...