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(Courtesy: FBI Columbia) COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO) - The FBI Columbia field office is hosting a public symposium on civil rights and hate crimes in South Carolina this month and September. You can take part in 4 events throughout…

Jordyn Hudson, director and producer of Shape The Culture: Then & Now. (YouTube screengrab) By Haley Wilson The Birmingham TimesIn her documentary “Shape The Culture: Then & Now”, which premiered virtually on…

BRIAN WITTERELATED PRESSANNAPOLIS, Md. - Gloria Richardson, an influential but largely unsung civil rights activist whose determination not to give in to protest racial inequality was captured in a photo throwing away a National…

Robert P. "Bob" Moses, a civil rights activist who was shot at the head of the registration campaigns for black voters in the South during the 1960s, who suffered beatings and jails and who later helped improve minority education in…

President Joe Biden promised to continue working with them when he opened a meeting at the White House Thursday. Watch the meeting in the player above. The president said it was the ninth anniversary of the shooting of…

The group behind an initiative to add sexual orientation and gender identity to the list of protected classes under Michigan Civil Rights is appealing a state committee decision that they lacked the signatures to proceed.In an appeal filed…

DES MOINES, Iowa (KCCI) - The man who was fired from an Iowa truck driving school for his hair is about to file a lawsuit against the company.Damon Mitchell says he was banned from a commercial driver's license program at TMC Transportation…

Debbie Montgomery recalled the time she was invited to try her hand at the Blue Line Speed ​​Skating Club in St. Paul's Highland Park. A determined skater, Montgomery competed against future Olympian Mary Meyers, one of the best in the…

Local residents attend a previous Juneteenth event in Crescent City.Crescent City resident Angel Duke spoke to the Board of County…

Civil rights groups on Wednesday called on the Justice Department (DOJ) to reconsider its position on the return to prison of thousands of federal prisoners who were detained during the pandemic, and offered a legal analysis they believed…