On Friday, friends and family of the youngest of the 13 original Freedom Riders gathered at the historic Ebenezer Baptist ...

When he and other Black protesters were arrested at a whites-only lunch counter in 1961, they tried a new strategy — ‘Jail No ...

Monday was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. He was the mainstay of the Civil Rights Movement. We have many people here in ...

Americans talk about Civil Rights as a political movement. But as MLK well knew, it was more than that. It was a revival.

Charles Person, the youngest original member of the Freedom Riders, passed away at 82 in Fayetteville. At 18, Person joined the Freedom Riders, facing violence to challenge racial segregation in the ...

His name has gained wider recognition in more recent decades, but civil rights activist and organizer Bayard Rustin has long ...

The NAACP Branch 3107 will present its annual Martin Luther King Day Celebration at 3 p.m. Sunday at One Faith Fellowship, ...

His daughter Keisha Person said in an interview Monday that her father didn't always talk about his time as a Freedom Rider, and she didn't even know his role in the movement until the family took a ...

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