NEW YORK (AP) — Some forward-looking college professors enabled television’s Smithsonian Channel to offer a look at the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. from the time in which it occurred. SEE ALSO: Dead Friend Buried Beneath Christmas Presents The network said Wednesday it will air a documentary in February culled primarily from local news footage […]

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  — Members of an Alabama church that was bombed early in the civil rights movement observed the 48th anniversary of the attack Thursday by dedicating a stone marker at the site of the blast that killed four black girls. RELATED: Top 10 Civil Rights Protest Songs Of All Time The Top 15 Civil Rights Leaders […]

Actor Danny Glover recently signed on to produce the “Black Power Mixtape,” a documentary about the struggles and growth of activism in the Civil Rights movement, and is saying that it’s a inspiring film that should usher change in America. Also read: Documentary Explores Racial Tension Between Haitians And Dominicans PBS Freedom Riders Documentary Draws […]

Fourty-eight years after the March on Washington became the crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is being remembered with his own memorial on the National Mall. At the same time, civil rights veterans are taking time to remember Bayard Rustin, the march’s chief organizer. The Washington Post reports: […]

NEW YORK-State Senator, Ruben Diaz has criticized New York Mayor, Michael Bloomberg for comparing gay rights to Civil Rights in a recent press release: There is no just comparison between America’s struggle to overcome the evils of slavery and the promotion of the lifestyle of homosexuality. It is preposterous for Mayor Bloomberg to degrade and […]

The PBS Documentary, “Freedom Riders” about the Civil Rights movement and the young men and women who would travel through out the south and willfully violate unjust segregationist policies is getting rave reviews after premiering last night. Critics have compared it to the award winning Civil Rights documentary series, “Eyes On The Prize.” The New […]

Los Angeles, California– Almena Lomax, a civil rights activist and founder of the Los Angeles Tribune died March 25th at 95 years old.

An editorial in this week’s New York Amsterdam News, the legendary Black newspaper of New York, highlights the rise of Rev. Al Sharpton’s storied civil rights organization The National Action Network, which will celebrate its 20th year of operation April 6-9 at their national convention in New York City. Related: NewsOne Columnist Rev. Al Sharpton […]

That photo of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. riding one of the first desegregated buses in Montgomery, Ala.? He took it. The well-known image of black sanitation workers carrying “I Am a Man” signs in Memphis? His. He was the only photojournalist to document the entire trial in the murder of Emmett Till, […]

Roland Martin appears in The Situation Room with CNN’s Suzanne Malveaux and Ed Rollins to discusses Glenn Beck’s efforts to “take back the civil rights movement” at a rally in Washington. WATCH: Who Owns The Civil Rights Movement?