On the evening of Oct. 10, Doudna Fine Arts Center hosted Oh Freedom! Songs of the Civil Rights Movement, a concert dedicated to teaching history through songs that were prevalent during the Civil ...

The African American folk singer and songwriter had decades-long career as a children's entertainer, and made a global impact ...

A former West Virginia correctional officer has pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights violation in the death of a man who died less than a day after being booked into a jail The Latest As ...

The government eventually settled a civil rights lawsuit stemming from the incident for $1.85 million dollars. Chicago white racists were notorious for bombing Black homes on the "wrong side" of ...

2nd February 1964: American civil rights activist Bayard Rustin (1912 ... Hoard, Shenel Johns, and Georgia Heers as they perform songs ranging from Billy Strayhorn to Shania Twain, blending ...

Immigrants rights groups were joined by faith and labor organizations at a downtown Los Angeles protest against the looming ...

With three blasts of a shotgun, Norvell, an unemployed white man from Memphis, wounded Meredith and transformed what had been a quixotic, lonely walk into a significant march for the civil rights ...

The U.S. Justice Department has been cleared to send lawyers to polling sites in Missouri and Texas on Election Day to monitor compliance with federal voting rights laws after those Republican-led ...

An umbrella organization of civil rights groups is alerting the public to “digital voting disinformation” and imploring social media companies to take action. “There is still time for social ...

Stevie Wonder revisited his incomparable musical canon, pleading for unity amidst division over 3 hours in Chicago as tour of ...

Why Neil Young and Lynyrd Skynyrd were locked in a long-running feud which would eventually lead to the group writing 'Sweet Home Alabama' in response to Young.

Jenkins, whose signature tune was "You'll Sing A Song," received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and was known worldwide ...