Civil Rights

The confrontation between the carrier, Sedrick Altheimer, and Sheriff Ed Troyer led to multiple investigations, criminal charges, and a $5 million lawsuit.

Members of the community gathered Thursday to remember Tacoma civil rights icon Harold Moss, who died last week. Services were held on what would have…

Tacoma Mayor Victoria Woodards says the feelings she gets talking about her mentor, friend and adoptive father Harold Moss, who died late Monday at the…

Music was an essential part of the civil rights movement. This weekend, KNKX’s John Kessler will host a special hourlong program highlighting the most important songs of the era, as well as the milestones they marked.

In 1963, a quarter-million people gathered in Washington, D.C., to hear Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. But the summer of 1963 marked a critical point in Seattle history as well, as young activists staged the city’s first sit-ins of the civil rights movement.

"The most vocal activist you've never heard of." That's how one news report describes Dolores Huerta in a new documentary about her life.Huerta founded…

Black and Hispanic students are disproportionately suspended, expelled and have unequal access to education, according to the latest Civil Rights Data Collection survey.

A street in Seattle’s central area has been named Reverend Dr. S. McKinney Avenue, for the local civil rights leader.Seattle Mayor Ed Murray signed an…

The movie "12 Years A Slave" has made clear the extent of the brutality slaves had to endure before emancipation. But life in the segregationist south up…

Later this month marks the 50th anniversary of a watershed in American civil rights history. That’s when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stood on the steps of…