CIVIL RIGHTS

Corie Murray returns to his interview in February 2022 with Rev. Dr. Randolph Bracy Jr.

Jacksonville civil rights activist and president of the Northside Coalition, Ben Frazier, passed away on Saturday night after a nine-month battle with cancer.

An Orange County businessman and civil rights leader is being remembered for helping many Black residents register to vote during the Civil Rights Movement.

Della Simpson Maynor was just 14 when she marched for voting rights in her hometown of Marion, Alabama, but she says she clearly remembers the police attacking the demonstrators.

A fight is brewing in Tennessee over a legendary civil rights and labor organizing center whose alumni and supporters include Rosa Parks and Eleanor Roosevelt.

A well-known civil rights leader in Orlando was laid to rest Saturday nearly two weeks after he passed at the age of 89.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day events are returning to Orlando in January, but organizers said on Saturday, Jan. 8, that the annual parade through the city’s downtown area will be canceled due to concerns over COVID-19.

Beverlye C. Neal, a woman who had a heart for civil rights and rose through the ranks of politics in Central Florida, has died at 74.

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Abraham Canaan said he wants economic justice for the paralysis he will endure after an Orange County deputy’s bullet hit his spine as he drove away from a Walmart parking lot on Jan. 31, 2017. Police body cam video shows Canaan clutching a hunting knife although he never appears to walk toward Deputy Joe Farias-Rios or Deputy Mathew Velazquez. AdThe FDLE investigation confirmed a bullet was “surgically removed” from Canaan’s spine although what caliber weapon was never reported by the FDLE or the Orange County Sheriff’s Office. The findings were sent to the state attorney’s office and deputies Farias-Rios and Velazquez were never charged. In a deposition taken for the trial against Canaan, Farias-Rios testified he opened fire because he felt Canaan presented a danger.

We celebrate Martin Luther King Day around the activist’s January birthday, which is Jan. 15.