Civil Rights Movement

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson delivered remarks in Birmingham, Alabama, at a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church, where four young black girls were killed.

Standing at the pulpit of the Birmingham, Alabama, church where four little girls were killed by a Ku Klux Klan bomb in 1963, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said the nation must remember and own the uncomfortable moments of its past in order to move forward.

President Joe Biden is calling for action to end the type of “hate-fueled violence” that authorities say motivated a white man to fatally shoot three Black people at a Florida store over the weekend.

Thousands gathered on the National Mall to mark 60 years since the March on Washington. News4’s Derrick Ward spoke to people who attended the March in 1963 and returned this weekend vowing to fight on.

Thousands gathered on the National Mall to mark 60 years since the March on Washington. News4’s Derrick Ward spoke to people who attended the March in 1963 and returned this weekend vowing to fight on.

Thousands have gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in the nation’s capital to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech.

A community effort hopes to raise money to save a Maryland home that has ties to the Civil Rights Movement.

A home in Maryland with deep ties to the civil rights movement is in danger of foreclosure.The home belongs to 89 year old Janice Grant, an activist who has helped desegregate schools and public spaces in the South and in Maryland.

An Alabama home where Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders planned several marches, is moving to a Michigan museum where it will eventually be open to the public.

At just 6 years old, Ruby Bridges first walked into William Frantz Elementary in New Orleans, desegregating the school.

Hear from the voices of the women and men who marched to Washington for racial equality in 1963.

One of six Black students involved in a tense confrontation with Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and other white students outside a segregated Arkansas high school 65 years ago says “you don’t judge people by the past” and he forgives Jones.

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said Thursday he was just a “curious kid” when he was part of a group of white students confronting Black students outside North Little Rock High School.

The March on Washington Film Festival will tell the civil rights movement story through music, films, art and even virtual reality starting on Wednesday in D.C.