Hastings, who became the first African American elected to Congress in Florida since the post-Civil War period, was serving his fifteenth term
The law imposes stricter identification requirements, limits drop boxes, gives lawmakers the power to take over local elections and shortens the early
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund launches a $40 million program to support a new generation of civil rights lawyers, dedicated to pursuing
A bipartisan resolution introduced Wednesday in the Georgia House seeks to replace a statue of a slave owner with one of the late congressman and civi
Cisse's family told The Associated Press that he died after contracting COVID-19
He inspired the Freedom Rides' of 1961
Announcement of federal probe of shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha comes as teen charged in shooting deaths of 2 men during Tuesday protest/
Announcement of federal probe of shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha comes as teen charged in shooting deaths of 2 men during Tuesday protest/
Former President Barack Obama took a series of thinly veiled shots at the actions of his successor that he said tore at the legacy of the Black civil
Long lines of people paid their respects at Georgia's capitol ahead of funeral
Civil rights leader will lie in state at Georgia state capital
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called Lewis the 'conscience of the Congress' who was 'revered and beloved on both sides of the aisle, on both sides of the
En route to Capitol, where his body will lie in state, motorcade took Lewis slowly past the city's civil rights landmarks
Events celebrating life of congressman, civil rights icon start in his Alabama hometown
Events celebrating Lewis' life to start Saturday in his Alabama hometown
Georgia congressman died last week at 80 following a battle with pancreatic cancer
Lewis was the last survivor of the Big Six civil rights activists, led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. He was best known for leading 600 protesters
The civil rights icon had battled pancreatic cancer
Vivian's civil rights work stretched back more than six decades, to his first sit-in demonstrations in the 1940s in Peoria, Ill
Preston had a lengthy acting career in movies and television; she last starred together with her husband in the 2018 film 'Gotti,' with Travolta play
UAW head was fierce foe of apartheid and also backed Poland's Solidarity movement
Gov. Gavin Newsom pardoned Rustin for his arrest in 1953 when he was found having sex with two men in a parked car in Pasadena