As Black Americans stand in the face of what might be a Civil Rights Movement 2.0, we celebrate our contemporary civil rights ...

Former Atlanta mayor and civil rights leader Andrew Young has been discharged after being hospitalized Friday in what his ...

The Friendship Nine changed the civil rights movement in 1961 by choosing prison rather than paying a fine for a sit-in at a Whites-only lunch counter.

ATLANTA — Rev. Eric Terrell, a lifelong civil rights activist and pillar of the ... message of justice took on a new undertone: keep the movement going. Terrell spent his whole life creating ...

ATLANTA — On Friday, friends and family of the youngest of the 13 original Freedom Riders gathered at the historic Ebenezer ...

As Ambassador Andrew Young said of the passing of Congressman John Lewis “there is going to be a great camp meeting in the sky,” as the civil rights leader joined his peers and other racial and social ...

some of his proudest moments came with the Civil Rights Movement. “He participated in a number of civil rights marches in Atlanta and Thomasville, as well as surrounding areas,” Mincey said.

When he and other Black protesters were arrested at a whites-only lunch counter in 1961, they tried a new strategy — ‘Jail No ...

MLK’s legacy lives on in Atlanta where the city hosted “A day on” of services and parades to honor MLK including projects to ...

Charles Person, the youngest original member of the Freedom Riders, passed away at 82 in Fayetteville. At 18, Person joined ...

ATLANTA — Former Atlanta mayor and civil rights leader Andrew Young has been discharged after being hospitalized Friday in what his family described as a precaution. The specific reason for the ...