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PHOENIX (3TV / CBS 5) - Civil rights activists say they want to protect your voting rights. They organized events in several states, including Arizona, and asked Congress to pass a law on voting rights.…

In memory of Danny Walters, July 15, 1960 to June 2, 2021.On June 1-June 2, 2021, on a warm night after a week of extreme heat, Danny Walters was working a long shift at Dana’s Dry Ridge, Kentucky plant when he suffered a grand-mal seizure.…

A proposal for a conditional reallocation that would allow the former Warwick Living Center in Alma to be converted into a temporary home for young male refugees has caught the attention of the Michigan Department of Civil Rights. In a…

The high-profile conflict over whether those who drive for Uber, Lyft and other delivery and ridesharing companies are employees or independent contractors entered a new phase last week in an Alameda County courtroom. Judge Frank Roesch…

The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s produced a number of celebrated leaders, renowned national figures such as Martin Luther King Jr., Thurgood Marshall, Jim Farmer, Fannie Lou Hamer, and John Lewis. Virtually all of them are…

MCCOMB, miss. (AP) - Birdie Lee Walker is 102 years old and celebrates his birthday this month. And that: "I just went down there and told them I wanted to vote." Sounds easy now, but it was a dangerous…

Evers, a NAACP foreign minister and civil rights activist who organized voter registrations, boycotts, and protests against school segregation, was shot in the back by a white racist in his driveway in June 1963. Jackson, a church deacon,…

ALMA, Michigan (AP) - The Department of Civil Rights is watching a community in central Michigan grant a zone change to provide temporary housing for teenagers crossing the U.S. southern border.Executive Director John E. Johnson Jr. said…

MCCOMB, miss. (AP) - Birdie Lee Walker is 102 years old and celebrates his birthday this month. And that: "I just went down there and told them I wanted to vote." Sounds easy now, but it was a dangerous…

There are many reasons to visit Tuscaloosa and understandably the University of Alabama and its college football championship program top the list. Tuscaloosa has other attractions that may not have the academic reach of UA or the roar…