On June 21, 1964, 60 years ago this week, my older brother Andrew Goodman was kidnapped and then murdered by the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi along with his co-civil rights workers ...

PHILADELPHIA, Miss., June 15 -- The man folks around here call Preacher Killen, a wheelchair-bound 80-year-old with a Ku Klux Klan past, was wheeled into a red brick courthouse here on Wednesday to ...

Norman Rockwell, whose name became shorthand for nostalgic Americana, spent his later years painting the nation’s moral ...

To many blacks who grew up in the Deep South before the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, last week’s election of James Young as the first African-American mayor of Philadelphia, Miss. was as ...

It’s been 60 years since Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner made their fateful journey from Oxford, Ohio to Mississippi to register Black Southerners to vote as part of Freedom Summer, ...