Johnnie Mae Chappell was killed in 1965 by a white gunman solely because she was Black. A new city monument tells the story ...

African Americans and Labor” featured keynote speaker Courtney Joiner, who highlighted members of the civil rights movement ...

Children of a civil rights figure murdered in Jacksonville watched on Friday morning as the city unveiled a marker honoring Johnnie Mae Chappell's legacy.

GREENVILLE-Eugene Parker calls himself a pivotal figure in the fight for equality during the civil rights movement, along ...

Jacksonville officials will unveil a historic marker to remember civil rights martyr Johnnie Mae Chappell on Friday at 10 a.m. at the Lincoln Villa Community Center.

It was still dark the morning of Feb. 24, 1966, in the middle of Ghana, West Africa, when a knock came at my door. “The troops are moving,” my student ...

Guest speakers include City of San Bernardino Water Board Commissioner Rikke Van Johnson, lifetime Member of New Hope ...

Author Jamia Wilson wants to inspire the next generation of activists by showing them the power of those who came before.

Joseph McNeil, one of the Greensboro Four, recalls the momentous sit-in that ignited a nationwide civil rights movement as he ...