Selma-Montgomery marcher Sheyann Webb-Christburg walks to the Freedom Rides Museum during a community celebration for civil rights icons Rev. C.T. Vivian and Congressman John Lewis in Montgomery ...

Gray recalled the last time he spoke to longtime friend U.S. Rep. John Lewis about a week before Lewis' death. Lewis was ...

Ponton, who lived in Nelson County for three decades before moving to Madison Heights, said she was five years old when the Freedom Riders made national news. She said the late John Lewis ...

“We have to stand up for Montgomery, we have to stand up for our history, and we have to stand up for this bus station with the same resolve that John Lewis and the Freedom Riders stood up for ...

(WIB) – Although many freedom fighters and faith leaders make the yearly March pilgrimage to Selma, Alabama in commemoration of the hundreds of civil rights activists injured by police on March 7, ...

These assaults on higher education are nothing new. They are part of a historical pattern: when education threatens ...

Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're ...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his demonstrators stream over an Alabama River bridge at the city limits of Selma, Ala., ...

A high-impact exhibition on the civil rights activist—who orchestrated the 1963 March on Washington—opens at the National ...

Mike Wiley works to bring history to the stage. The playwright and actor stars in the one-man show, “Breach of Peace: Freedom Riders of 1961,” at Children's Theatre of Charlotte through March 30.