Playwright Cheryl L. West’s “Fannie (The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer)” chronicles the life of the ‘60s civil rights ...

A minister disfigured in an attack on his life, he became what one historian called “the most visible white activist in the ...

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster appointed Darline Graham, the late Sen. Lindsey Graham’s sister, to be the temporary ...

Lifelong activist, organizer and educator Denise Oliver-Vélez has died at the age of 78. She was a central figure in the civil rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s and was the first woman elected ...

What does freedom mean to Floridians in 2026? What about the promise of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? How about ...

The tragic death of 18-year-old Nolan Wells, the community college football player who went missing while socializing with friends on the Fourth of July, has sent shock waves throughout the ...

CHESTER — Fannie Lou Hamer didn’t learn she had the right to vote until she was 44 years old. Hamer, a Black sharecropper who hadn’t graduated from middle school, was radicalized by this information.

Photo: Fannie Lou Hamer, 1964. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress. Named in honor of Fannie Lou Hamer, a fearless leader of the Civil Rights Movement, this annual University of Delaware lecture ...

She became the highest-ranking female member of the Young Lords in New York, where she pressed for women’s rights, and later ...

Denise Oliver-Vélez, a pioneering member of the Young Lords and Black Panther Party and a trailblazing broadcaster and ...

Sen. Lindsey Graham's death sparks questions about his replacement, special elections, and the Senate's future.

Sen. Lindsey Graham's death sparks questions about his replacement, special elections, and the Senate's future.