Music played a key role in the civil rights movement. People marched to freedom songs while artists from Sam Cooke to Bob Dylan took the message to the masses in recordings as enduring as "A Change is ...

Several career prosecutors in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division announced they are leaving the department, shortly after they learned there would be no civil rights probe into the fatal ...

Joanne Bland, a civil rights foot soldier and educator from Selma, died Thursday at the age of 72. “It is with profound sadness and heavy hearts that the family of Ms. Joanne Bland announces her ...