Civil rights

Malcolm X’s daughters are accusing the CIA, FBI, the NYPD and others in a $100-million lawsuit for mishandling their father’s 1965 assassination.

NBC Chicago’s Christian Farr speaks to the chairman of Illinois’ commission on reparations to talk about how their work aims to undo generations of harm.

The Rev. James Lawson Jr., an apostle of nonviolent protest who schooled activists to withstand brutal reactions from white authorities as the Civil Rights Movement gained traction, has died, his family said Monday. He was 95.

Vice President Kamala Harris and Attorney General Merrick Garland are among those marking the 59th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama.

The teacher has filed a discrimination complaint alleging that their termination is a violation of federal civil rights law.

A federal appeals court has temporarily halted a venture capital firm’s grant program for businesses run by Black women.

President Joe Biden is calling for action to end the type of “hate-fueled violence” that authorities say motivated a white man to fatally shoot three Black people at a Florida store over the weekend.

Thousands have gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in the nation’s capital to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech.

Editor’s note: “The Lost Story of Emmett Till: The Universal Child,” part one of NBC Chicago’s three-part Emmett Till docuseries, can be viewed in the player above. President Joe Biden will establish a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago who was abducted, tortured and killed in 1955 after he was accused of whistling at a white woman in Mississippi, and...