Selma Jubilee event honors Rev. Jesse Jackson’s legacy as family and civil rights leaders gather

National civil rights leaders, community members, and visitors gathered to reflect on Jackson’s decades of work in the movement and the impact he left on generations of activists.

Greensboro reflects on Rev. Jesse Jackson’s legacy at International Civil Rights Center & Museum

Community members packed the auditorium at the International Civil Rights Center & Museum on Sunday to honor the life and ...

Original foot soldiers return to Selma for annual breakfast honoring Civil Rights legacy

More than six decades after the marches that helped change the course of American history, some of the people who helped lead ...
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Wreath-laying ceremony honors fallen martyrs of the Civil Rights Movement

The event marked the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the most violent day of the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery march for the ...

Bernard Lafayette Jr., 85, Dies; Civil Rights Leader Helped Plan Selma March

A close associate of Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis, he was involved in many of the key moments of the Black freedom ...
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'Stay conscious': MLK Day event speakers say the fight for civil rights continues

SALT LAKE CITY — The fight for justice and civil rights is far from over, nearly 48 years after the death of Martin Luther King Jr. Speakers at an event on Monday at the state Capitol in Salt Lake ...
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We need to remember the local heroes of the Civil Rights Movement | Column

“We like to pretend that segregation was so long ago, out of sight, out of mind and it’s not, it’s systemic,” says Christopher Jackson, the director of the local production “When the Righteous Triumph ...