Former Atlanta mayor and civil rights leader Andrew Young has been discharged after being hospitalized Friday in what his ...

According to a memo, DOJ attorneys cannot file new complaints, briefs or certain court papers “until further notice.” ...

ATLANTA — On Friday, friends and family of the youngest of the 13 original Freedom Riders gathered at the historic Ebenezer ...

For Charles Person and Thomas Gaither, 1961 was an eventful year in their young lives. Person was 18 and became the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, and Gaither was 22 when he introduced the ...

ATLANTA — Former Atlanta mayor and civil rights leader Andrew Young has been hospitalized, according to his family. The reason why Young was taken to the hospital remains unclear, but his family ...

In the 1960 presidential election, little focus was given to unrest in the South. So Atlanta activist Lonnie C. King came up with a plan, turning to his childhood friend MLK Jr. for support.

Charles Person, the youngest original member of the Freedom Riders, passed away at 82 in Fayetteville. At 18, Person joined ...

MLK’s legacy lives on in Atlanta where the city hosted “A day on” of services and parades to honor MLK including projects to ...

The incident happened in the Old Fourth Ward, on Old Wheat Street, which is directly across from Ebenezer Baptist Church, a historic landmark in the Civil Rights Movement. Atlanta police confirmed ...

As Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was becoming the voice of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, he was serving in another ...

More than 50 years after he died at age 39 from an assassin’s bullet, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. endures as one of ...