Civil Rights

Ferguson and Julius Chambers represented the Swann family in a landmark lawsuit against the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Board. The case led school districts nationwide to begin busing students to integrate schools.

The NAACP’s 116th annual convention opened in Charlotte over the weekend. The theme is “the fierce urgency of now,” a phrase borrowed from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that organizers say speaks even more strongly to what’s happening in our country today. We hear from key members of the organization about that theme, the convention so far and more.

Slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers is remembered each year during the NAACP National Convention, which opened in Charlotte last week. Retired UNC-Chapel Hill professor and author Minrose Gwin talks to WFAE’s Gwendolyn Glenn about Evers and his assassination.

The Trump administration has issued a notice of violation accusing Harvard University of "deliberate indifference" toward Jewish and Israeli students.

Current and former officials say the current effort amounts to the dismantling of the civil rights division and its traditional mission.

A federal judge in Wisconsin has ruled that a civil rights lawsuit filed by the father of a man shot and killed by Rittenhouse can proceed to the next phase.

Robert Parris Moses, a civil rights activist who endured beatings and jail while leading Black voter registration drives in the American South during the 1960s and later helped improve minority education in math, has died. He was 86.

The House voted Thursday to approve the bill to add and expand protections for LGBTQ people in the Civil Rights Act. Here's what it would do and why it's controversial.

The Post and Courier of Charleston reports the $1 coin depicts Septima Poinsette Clark marching with three Black students carrying books and an American flag, “representing that education and literacy among oppressed people is necessary for empowerment and enjoyment of civil rights."

Thereasea Elder, one of the first Black public health nurses in Charlotte, has died.