William Lacy Clay Sr.'s career in political office started when he was 28 years old. The civil rights advocate was a strong ...

William L. Clay Sr., a longtime advocate for civil rights and workers’ rights and Missouri’s first Black congressman, died ...

William “Bill” Lacy Clay Sr., a civil rights leader and Missouri’s first African-American Congressman, has died at the age of ...

It is deeply concerning to witness the pervasive fear among African Americans and Latin Americans, particularly immigrants or ...

The Wright Museum's 60th anniversary provided an opportunity for Detroiters to tell their own stories about the museum's impact.

An unrepentant liberal, Clay served more than three decades in Congress, the first African American from Missouri. His son, Lacy Clay, succeeded him.

ST. LOUIS — William "Bill" Clay Sr., Missouri's first Black congressman and a St. Louis civil rights leader, died Thursday morning. He was 94.

As American demographics change—with growing racial diversity, educational polarization, and morphing religious ...

Good Trouble Lives On marches and rally at Lawyers Mall were held in Annapolis to protest “attacks on our civil and human rights by the Trump administration” on the fifth anniversary of Civil ...

In 1898, in the landmark case of U.S. v Wong Kim Ark, the Supreme Court reaffirmed the birthright citizenship guarantee, ...

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) is seeking a shortened prison sentence of just one day for an ex-police officer convicted of using excessive force during a raid in Louisville, Kentucky ...

The ENRICH African American Heritage Tour is a self-guided and mobile audio tour “celebrating the rich African American heritage embedded in the county’s cultural and physical landscapes.” ...