Andrew Young

ATLANTA (AP) — Through the tough struggles of the civil rights movement, Julian Bond always kept his sense of humor, and it was his...

ATLANTA — Former Atlanta mayor and U.N. Ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young celebrated his 83rd birthday at the Marriott Marquis in downtown Atlanta…

A concrete mixing truck suddenly overturned on Monday afternoon on Hemphill Ave. and 14th St. and crushed two cars beside it, including one with former…

ATLANTA — John Lewis was yanked from the ranks of obscurity on a rural Alabama farm and catapulted to international icon status because he defied…

WASHINGTON (AP) — They only lasted minutes, but the beatings of civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama, permanently seared the inhumanity of Southern segregation...

NEW YORK (AP) — In an unsparing critique of Republicans, President Barack Obama on Friday accused the GOP of using voting restrictions to keep...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter recently walked up to the pulpit of the Atlanta church where her father preached and, in...

President Barack Obama speaks at the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr., spoke, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) by Nancy Benac and Suzanne Gamboa WASHINGTON (AP) - Standing on hallowed ground of the civil rights movement, President Barack Obama challenged new generations Wednesday to seize the cause of racial equality and honor the "glorious patriots" who marched a half century ago to the very steps from which Rev. Martin Luther King spoke during the March on Washington.

LEADERSHIP--Delta Sigma Theta’s national president Cynthia M.A. Butler-McIntyre with the national executive committee and regional leadership at the Tournament of Rose House in...