Education advocates, recently fired employees, and supporters are expected to gather Friday morning at the U.S. Department of ...

Sixty years ago today, civil rights leader John Lewis led hundreds of voting rights activists over the Edmund Pettus Bridge ...

Selma showed the world that change doesn’t come from waiting — it comes from marching, from pushing, from refusing to be ...

An emotional gathering will be held in Harlem on Wednesday as long-time civil rights champion Dr. Hazel Dukes is laid to rest during her funeral. Former Secretary of ...

Sixty years ago, civil rights leaders and nonviolent activists tried to march from Selma to Montgomery in the fight for the ...

On March 7, 1965, a pivotal moment in American history unfolded as Black civil rights activists faced brutal violence while ...

Civil rights leaders gather in Selma, Alabama, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday and call for continued ...

Barbara Franklin, whom President Richard Nixon appointed in 1971 to spearhead an effort to bring more women into high-level ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Sixty years ago, civil rights leaders ... launched by civil rights activists in Selma. It was signed into law by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson two days later.

They fed, protected and housed activists who traveled to Selma, Alabama, in March 1965 to demonstrate for voting rights.

"It is a significant action taken by the Trump administration. The impact, generally, I don't think will be significant," said Nichole Atallah.

Decades after law officers attacked voting rights marchers, we revisit the event that helped spark passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and hear what civil rights activists are doing in Selma today.