CNN's David Mattingly talks to Ben Jealous on the anniversary of the march on Selma.
The world is full of people hoping to rob you of your good mood. Here's how to perfect the fine art of psychological self-defense.
Five who desperately needed new kidneys got them Friday in an unusual five-way kidney transplant swap at a San Francisco hospital made possible by a computer program.
The hard-won fight for civil rights could go down as one of the most thoroughly archived periods in American history, largely because participants kept photos and objects that would later tell their stories.
Despite obvious differences, many people see parallels between Egyptian uprising and the U.S. civil rights movement.
As I watched the television footage of demonstrators in Cairo's Tahrir Square make the decision to reduce the violence going on around them by sitting down in the street when word came that thugs from the Mubarak regime were on the way to break up their rally, I was reminded of how it felt in the spring of 1965 to be part of the Selma-to-Montgomery civil rights march.
It's always interesting talking to American youth, especially African Americans, who are quick to suggest that the "old ways of doing things" like marches, rallies, protests and boycotts have no effect on changing public policy today.
CNN's Soledad O'Brien shares how growing up in a mixed-race family helped shape her outlook as a journalist.
We are approaching the fortieth anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. The King family and Morehouse College offer me an exclusive opportunity to review his private papers. His words have become the treatise of our country's civil rights movement. Whenever people cry out for justice, they quote King. "There is a new Negro in the South."
This month marks the anniversary of many historical milestones in the continuing effort to guarantee equal rights to all Americans.
Longtime entertainment columnist Army Archerd, who was one of the first writers to reveal that actor Rock Hudson was being treated for AIDS, has died at age 87, according to the industry publication Daily Variety.
To cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge into Selma is to share a stage with history. And these days, it is to come face-to-face with a bleak present.
Selma diner
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CNN's John King talks to some Alabama residents about their economic troubles.
For almost 60 years, Grace Britton Sweet has had the right to vote. She can vividly recall the day she registered.
A look back and a sneak peak at a key site in civil rights history.
A trip through sweltering Alabama to experience some of the civil rights movement's most important sites brought history books to life for my family and me.
A manager at a gay strip club says an 'American Idol' contestant danced there nude. 'Prime News' has the story.
Dense fog along a busy highway was blamed for a massive pileup of as many as 100 cars, killing two people and injuring dozens
African journalist awards
CNN's Inside Africa Host, Femi Oke reflects on the week that was the CNN/Multichoice African Journalist of the year awards.
The top two Democratic presidential contenders fought Sunday for the support of African-American voters in a place infamous for a bloody clash between voting rights protesters and police.
As they battle for support in the black community in their quest for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama will attend Sunday's commemoration of the historic 1965 Selma voting rights march.
Friday, March 2updated: Fri Mar 02 2007 03:01:00
NEW YORK (CNN) -- The widow of New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle has filed suit against the company that made her husband's doomed plane, alleging that "catastrophic failure" of its flight control system caused the aircraft's crash into a Manhattan high-rise apartment building last fall.
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