Civil Rights Slayings Divide Miss. Town
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The arrest of former Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen in one of the most horrific crimes of the civil rights era was for some a satisfying culmination of a long-delayed hunt for justice. But others here would rather forget the crime, along with the stain of violent racism it left on the town.
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The death of Tarika Wilson during a drug raid has left tensions here simmering between minorities and police.
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Six people were killed in Bay County, Florida, and officials know that more people have died. Janice Gilley, a county commissioner in Escambia Countyâwhich includes Pensacolaâsaid an elderly couple refused
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Even as support crumbles in Congress for a resolution recognizing the World War I-era Armenian genocide, several Massachusetts towns are still calling on the Anti-Defamation League to clarify its position on the matter and support the resolution.
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A segregationist preacher is  arrested for the notorious 1964 murders of three civil rights workers in Mississippi.
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RIVIERA BEACH, Florida Nov 2  - Anger over the lost votes of 2000 is still simmering in this mainly black town of south Florida, where voters turned out massively Tuesday, many vowing they would not be disenfranchized again.
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This week's resignation of its president points to an internal split: civil rights vs. economic progress.
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With tourists streaming into town for Mardi Gras celebrations, a spasm of gun violence left two people dead and seven wounded &#151; more bad news for a city struggling to rebuild itself and its tourism industry.
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As the country prepares for local elections on Sunday, many are finding that the murder and intimidation that once defined politics here are diminishing.
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A recent murder indicates a backlash by some against women as their rights and opportunities increase.
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About 50 white separatists protested the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday Monday in this tiny town, which was thrust into the spotlight months ago by 20,000 demonstrators who claimed prosecutors discriminated against blacks.
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Even as the U.S. Department of Justice was announcing a fresh look at unsolved civil rights-era killings around the South, a Mississippi Delta prosecutor was closing the books on perhaps the most notorious of those cold cases &#151; the brutal 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till.
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A reputed Ku Klux Klan member pleaded not guilty Friday to state charges of murdering three civil rights workers more than 40 years ago in one of the most notorious crimes of Mississippi's troubled past.
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All but closing the books on a crime that helped give rise to the civil rights movement, a grand jury has refused to bring any new charges in the 1955 slaying of Emmett Till, a black teenager who was beaten and shot after whistling at a white woman in the Mississippi Delta.
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Yang, president of the Wausau Area Hmong Association, and other Hmong community leaders in the state are concerned about a backlash after the killing of six deer hunters in northern Wisconsin.
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On the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, anger over the stalled rebuilding was palpable throughout a city where the mourning for the dead and feeling of loss for flooded homes, schools, snowball stands, old-time hairstylists and hardware stores doesn't seem to subside.
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As the community struggled to comprehend the killerÂs actions, families prepared for funerals.