George C. Richardson (1931-2021) was a maverick civil rights leader who served four terms in the New Jersey State Assembly in the 1960s and 1970s.

President Joe Biden posthumously pardoned civil rights leader and Pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey, along with four others, and ...

His name has gained wider recognition in more recent decades, but civil rights activist and organizer Bayard ... People like Robert F. Williams, another civil rights organizer in the South who ...

Meanwhile, Robert Kennedy called the judge in the ... Kennedy's inauguration, civil rights activists were disappointed that the president did not introduce any new legislation on the issue.

Other notable recipients of the award include Fannie Lou Hamer, a civil rights activist; Robert Francis Kennedy, who served as Attorney General and US Senator; and Jose Andres, a renowned chef and ...

Robert F. Kennedy; Ash Carter, a former secretary of defense; and Fannie Lou Hamer, who founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and laid the groundwork for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Fifty-nine years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a speech in the William Pitt Union about his hopes for economic equality for African Americans and concerns about the Vietnam War. On Monday, ...

The scientist and activist, who turned 90 this year, is known for her breakthrough work on the study of primates and human evolution. Fannie Lou Hamer (posthumous) Ms. Hamer, a civil rights ...

US President Joe Biden has pardoned five people including the late civil rights activist Marcus Garvey ... Rastafarians — including reggae icon Bob Marley, heavily influencing much of his ...