Civil rights

US MLK Mason Temple
Members of the Church of God in Christ listen to speakers at a news conference announce that a federal grant for improvements has been awarded to the historic Mason Temple, Monday, April 13, 2026, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/Adrian Sainz)

Church

The church where MLK gave his final speech is getting a $1.2 million renovation

APRIL 13, 2026

APTOPIX FBI Firings
FILE - Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officers take a knee with demonstrators, as they march on Pennsylvania Ave, June 4, 2020, in Washington, during a protest over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, who died after a police officer kneeled on his neck for several minutes. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Civil rights

Top-tier sourcing leads to AP scoop on FBI firing agents who kneeled during racial justice protests

OCT. 3, 2025

Bayard Rustin LGBTQ Archive
FILE - Civil rights leader Bayard Rustin is seen on Dec. 14, 1970, in New York. (AP Photo/File)

Civil rights

A Bayard Rustin archive aims to preserve his legacy as a queer Civil Rights activist

JULY 8, 2025

APTOPIX Trump
President Donald Trump, left, holds up a signed executive order as young people hold up copies of the executive order they signed at an education event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Breaking news

A week of scoops sets apart AP’s coverage of unprecedented upheaval in American education

MARCH 21, 2025

FILE - The headquarters of the U.S. Department of Education, March 12, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
FILE - The headquarters of the U.S. Department of Education, March 12, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Civil rights

Education Department layoffs gut its civil rights office, leaving discrimination cases in limbo

MARCH 14, 2025

Louisiana Police Death Federal Probe
FILE - From left, Lumumba Lutalo, Angela "Mama Ghost" Green and Antonia Mar, of New Orleans for Community Oversight of Police, take part in a rally for justice for Ronald Greene at the Eastern District of Louisiana Courthouse in New Orleans, on May 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton, File)

Civil rights

Federal prosecutors won’t seek charges in deadly arrest of Black motorist Ronald Greene

JAN. 24, 2025

Reckoning Donations
FILE - People raise their hands as police, trying to get them to disperse, move toward them during protests on Aug. 11, 2014 over the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

Activism

With their massive resources, corporations could be champions of racial equity but often waver

AUG. 23, 2024

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Civil rights

Collins weaves formats into story of new home for South Carolina’s first civil rights museum

JAN. 6, 2024

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Emmett Louis Till, a Black 14-year-old who was abducted and lynched near the Delta community of Money, Miss., in 1955, is shown in an undated portrait. AP broke the news that a team searching for evidence in the basement of a Mississippi courthouse in June 2022 found the unserved warrant for the white woman whose unproven accusations led to his kidnapping and death. Relatives of Till want authorities to finally arrest Carolyn Bryant Donham nearly 70 years later. (AP Photo, File)

Civil rights

AP Exclusive: Unserved 1955 arrest warrant discovered for woman at center of Emmett Till case

JULY 8, 2022

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A statue, seen from behind, depicting Chief Tomochichi, a Muscogee native who signed the 1733 treaty that launched the Georgia colony, stands at a temporary location in Atlanta, Dec. 20, 2021. The statue was intended for a park honoring civil rights figures, but Muscogee Nation historians call their ancestor a traitor who was complicit in genocide. They also say the statue is inaccurate — he would have been fully clothed, not clutching a bear pelt. (AP Photo / Michael Warren)

Civil rights

AP reveals dark legacy of Native American depicted on Atlanta civil rights statue

FEB. 18, 2022

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Civil rights

AP reveals that Barrett was trustee for schools with anti-gay policies

OCT. 30, 2020

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Civil rights

In Tuskegee, home to black achievement, a Confederate monument endures

AUG. 16, 2018

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