Moments like this — when public anger spills into the streets — are not new. In New Orleans, similar outrage fueled protests during the civil rights movement.

Music played a powerful role in the Civil Rights era, providing a soundtrack for the movement and inspiring hope for change with songs like "We Shall Overcome", "A Change Is Gonna Come", "People Get ...

DECATUR, Ga. (WALB) - On October 25, 1960, Martin Luther King Jr. was sentenced in Decatur, Georgia for protesting segregation at a department store lunch counter. King’s attendance at that protest ...

This was one of the civil rights movement's most popular songs, an unofficial anthem so pervasive that President Lyndon B. Johnson slipped the title phrase into a speech to Congress in March of 1965 ...

Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" remains a timeless call for justice and a challenge to religious leaders and institutions to break free from complacency and embrace moral ...