Civil rights

Malcolm X’s daughters are accusing the CIA, FBI, the NYPD and others in a $100-million lawsuit for mishandling their father’s 1965 assassination.

With Election Day approaching, artists and musicians including composer Nolan Williams Jr. are encouraging people to plan their vote....
Williams’ new civic anthem memorializes three civil rights workers who were killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi while encouraging Black citizens to vote in 1964. Williams tells News4’s Tommy McFly how the story is still important to remember...

A powerful new exhibit honors one of the first civil rights sit-in protests in America. In 1939, when the Alexandria Library was only open to white people, Samuel Tucker and five other young Black men organized a sit-in at the library. As they expected, staff called police and had the men arrested for daring to read at a whites-only library….

One of the first ever civil rights sit-in protests in America happened in Northern Virginia 85 years ago when the Alexandria Library was only open to white people. News4’s Aimee Cho reports on the powerful new exhibit honoring the Black trailblazers who fought for civil rights.

The Rev. James Lawson Jr., an apostle of nonviolent protest who schooled activists to withstand brutal reactions from white authorities as the Civil Rights Movement gained traction, has died, his family said Monday. He was 95.

Vice President Kamala Harris and Attorney General Merrick Garland are among those marking the 59th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama.

Kelley Robinson is the first black, queer woman to lead one of the nation’s largest LGBTQ advocacy groups, the Human Rights Campaign, but this is not her first taste of steering the progressive movement. She says now is the time for her leadership – her goal is freedom for all, without exceptions.

A three-mile trail dedicated to the stories of Black residents of Fredericksburg has been added to the U.S. Civil Rights Trail. News4’s Dominique Moody reports.

The teacher has filed a discrimination complaint alleging that their termination is a violation of federal civil rights law.

A film about one of the activists behind the historic March on Washington premiered in D.C. Friday. News4’s Walter Morris was at the National Museum of African American History for the screening of “Rustin.”

A federal appeals court has temporarily halted a venture capital firm’s grant program for businesses run by Black women.

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.