Clara Ester, an activist and minister who rushed to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s side when he was shot, has died at 78.

It was a life that took him from peanut farming to the presidency.

The Rev. James Lawson Jr. has died.

A warehouse worker in Tennessee is running up against price increases that far exceed her modest pay raise.

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are both marking the one-year anniversary of the death U.S. Rep. John Lewis by urging Congress to enact laws to protect voting rights.

Some of the Black college students who integrated downtown Nashville in 1960 went on to play integral roles in nearly every major campaign of the civil rights era.