Civil Rights

Students, faculty and staff celebrated the start of Black History Month recently on the Campus of Florida Gulf Coast University.

Fort Myers honored Martin Luther King Jr. with a vibrant celebration, fostering unity and equality through engaging community events.

The Song of the Day is paying tribute to the singers, songwriters and musicians who died in 2023. Harry Belafonte died April 25, 2023 in New York City of congestive heart failure. He was 96. "Day-O" was chosen as The Song of the Day tribute because it was Belafonte's signature song.

MLK Day celebration in Fort Myers

The agency surveilled Franklin and those around her to gauge how deeply she was involved in organizations tied to Communism, the civil rights movement and the Black Power movement.

A conversation with investigative reporter and founder of the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting Jerry Mitchell about how his work led to convictions of KKK members in the 1963 Birmingham Church Bombing, the 1963 assassination of Medgar Evers, the 1966 fatal firebombing of NAACP leader Vernon Dahmer, and the killings of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner during the Freedom Summer of 1964. Mitchell comes to FGCU for free lecture that’s open to the public on Wednesday, Feb. 16.

A design by multimedia artist Cecilia Lueza that embodies the concepts of dreams, hope and civil rights will be constructed at the intersection of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Veronica S. Shoemaker Boulevards.

Voting Rights groups are challenging a new Florida law, saying it quote “violates the prohibition against poll taxes”. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the bill...

Florida is known for providing easy access to public records. But Barbara Petersen of the Tallahassee-based First Amendment Foundation says the 2019...

Thursday’s joint meeting of the Florida House Judiciary Committee and Criminal Justice Subcommittee brought up questions about the logistics of...