Civilrights

STOCKTON (CBS) - A crowd gathered in Stockton on Saturday with voices raised and strong emotions to demand justice after seeing the newly released video of a police body camera of four officers beating 17-year-old Devin Carter late last…

LITTLE ROCK - The St. Louis 8th County Appeals Court on Tuesday dismissed a civil rights lawsuit filed by a state prisoner against a Jefferson County prison guard he and three other inmates while prison guards suppressed a disturbance.…

"FROM PREPARATION TO CENTERING: A WHITE MINISTER IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT" by Francis X. Walter (NewSouth Books, 320 pages, $ 29)."Strangely enough, the racial superiority of crevasses is sinking - it may be hiding…

LITTLE ROCK - The St. Louis 8th County Appeals Court on Tuesday dismissed a civil rights lawsuit filed by a state prisoner against a Jefferson County prison guard he and three other inmates while prison guards suppressed a disturbance.…

From 1963 to 1964, Danny Lyon, a photographer from Brooklyn, New York, traveled south to document the civil rights movement. He was a white man, sympathetic to the movement and considered himself a "photographer as a…

SPRING VALLEY, NY - Residents of a school district north of New York City are voting in a new system that civil rights activists and a federal judge say they offer black and Hispanic voters a better voice in their children's education for…

Stephen Lovekin / GettyCicely Tyson's legacy in arts and entertainment feels infinite - as if she has always been there and always will be. Tyson, an almost divine figure for generations of fans, peers and students who died on January 28…

The Jewish civil rights movement End Jew Hatred protested outside the California home of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Monday and released audio recordings of tweets denying the Holocaust that were not removed…

To say that my vacation spirit was shattered after reading the December 27 story that "the protester's arrest followed her for months," about Rudonna Legree's continued restraint, doesn't even come close…