On May 2, 1963, roughly 1,000 Birmingham students left their classrooms and took to the streets, taking on the fight for ...

Alabama lawmakers passed a bill to make Juneteenth an official state holiday, awaiting Gov. Kay Ivey's decision.

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On May 2, 1963, roughly 1,000 Birmingham students left their classrooms and took to the streets, taking on the fight for civil rights in place of their parents in what would later be known as the ...

Mississippi honors those who fought for the Confederacy against the United States in the Civil War. Who tried to drop the ...

"The sculpture will serve as a reminder to every lawyer who walks through this courtyard that service, courage and character ...

Pecans, peanuts, historic Savannah, the Coca Cola Museum and the civil rights movement are some of what Georgia is known for.

As a Black teenager growing up in Boston, Wayne Lucas vividly remembers joining some 20,000 people to hear the Rev. Martin ...

Sixty years on, Lucas was back on the Boston Common on Saturday to celebrate the anniversary of what became known as the 1965 Freedom Rally. He joined others in calling for continued activism against ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The King paid a special tribute to Australian and New Zealand forces who fell during the Gallipoli landings in 1915 as dawn broke on Anzac Day. Services took place as the sun rose across the two ...

Legendary attorney Fred Gray — once deemed the “chief counsel” of the Civil Rights Movement by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — was honored with a statue outside the Alabama State Bar Ass ...