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Larry Pippion didn't have a regular father-son relationship growing up with his father, Larry Earvin, but he knows he was a quiet and intelligent man.It wasn't until Pippion was a teenager that he learned that his father was schizophrenic…

INDIANA COUNTY, Pennsylvania - In 1982 Lewis Fogle was sentenced to life imprisonment for the rape and murder of a 15-year-old Indiana County girl.He spent 34 years in prison before DNA evidence exonerated him, which led to his release in…

SAN ANTONIO - A pre-planned large symposium organized by the Mexican-American Civil Rights Institute now coincides with the problems facing Texas Latinos.Sarah Zenaida Gould, interim director of the institute, said on Saturday at 3 p.m.…

Of Jeannie O'Sullivan · Aug 13, 2021 at 7:29 PM EDT…

Littler Mendelson's attorneys on Friday withdrew a civil rights lawsuit against Comcast in New Jersey District Court. The complaint was made by Costello & Mains on behalf of Gabriella Guzman, who claims she suffered…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Charmaine Riley, , 202.548.7166 WASHINGTON - Wade Henderson, Interim President and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, made the following statement after the Department of Education…

A Baton Rouge man accused in July 2019 of murdering local civil rights activist Sadie Roberts-Joseph has been given a hearing on March 14th.Ronn Jermaine Bell, 40, is charged with second degree murder in the…

Until There Is Justice: The Life of Anna Arnold Hedgeman by Jennifer Scanlon is the first biography (published in 2016) of the African-American civil rights leader who helped organize the 1963 March on Washington that Dr. Martin…

By Michael SznajdermanAlabama News CenterLee Sentell was in college when he heard the words of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in person. It was during the Selma to Montgomery suffrage march in 1965, the night before King…

Bill Onus was a masterful boomerang thrower, showman, and revered Aboriginal civil rights activist, but a new documentary adds another layer to the legend: first Aboriginal filmmaker.In Ablaze, opera singer and academic Tiriki Onus traces…