Civil Rights

Civil Rights

Minn. Governor to Sign Bill Allowing Gay Marriage

Minnesota is set to become the first state in the Midwest to legalize gay marriage by legislative vote.

Civil Rights

Activists End Bus Tour for Voting Rights in Ala.

Montgomery was the final stop Wednesday on a bus tour of Alabama and Mississippi aimed at keeping the 1965 Voting Rights intact.

Civil Rights

Fight for Freedom

Joan Trumpauer Mulholland survived the Civil Rights Movement after participating (starting at age 19) in sit-ins, demonstrations and the Freedom Rides of 1961.

City & County

Medgar Evers to be Remembered 50 Years Later

To mark the 50th anniversary of his slaying, a series of June events will pay tribute to Evers' work.

Civil Rights

Amid School Changes, Giving Voice to Busing's Past

Last fall, Ginnette Powell traveled from her home in Boston's Dorchester section to her old middle school in South Boston—a journey of just two miles, but one that covered a ...

Civil Rights

Ala. Legislature Votes to Pardon Scottsboro Boys

Opening a final chapter to one of the most important civil rights episodes in American history, Alabama lawmakers voted Thursday to allow posthumous pardons for the "Scottsboro Boys": nine black ...

Business

Decades After King's Death, Memphis Jobs at Risk

They rode the streets of Memphis in creaky, dangerous garbage trucks, picking up trash from home after home, toiling for a sanitation department that treated them with indifference bordering on ...

Civil Rights

High Court Poised to Upend Civil Rights Policies

Has the nation lived down its history of racism and should the law become colorblind? Addressing two pivotal legal issues, one on affirmative action and a second on voting rights, ...

Civil Rights

Lillie Ayers Dead at the Age of 85

Lillie B. Ayers, who became the lead plaintiff in Mississippi's college desegregation lawsuit after the death of her husband, has died at her home in Glen Allan. She was 85.

Civil Rights

Life of Medgar Evers Being Commemorated

The Mississippi Department of Archives and History commemorates the 50th anniversary of the slaying of civil rights leader Medgar Evers with the opening of a new exhibit in Jackson on ...