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.

The ability of the media to portray brutal repression of the Southern African Americans, and in parallel, speeches by Civil rights spokesmen, worked in tandem with presidential and legislative decisio ...

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.

Harvard University law and history professor Kenneth Mack provided an introduction to his lecture about African American law student Lloyd Gaines, who petitioned the Supreme Court when he was denied ...

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 ...

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.” ...

Inductees Harriette Gillem Robinet, Timuel Black and Oscar Brown Jr. are not only celebrated writers but civil rights activists who promoted a message of perseverance.