WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the nation’s oldest civil rights organizations on Thursday declared a “state of emergency” for ...

William L. Clay Sr., Missouri’s first Black congressman and noted civil rights leader died Wednesday at his daughter Vicki ...

William Lacy “Bill” Clay Sr., a pioneering civil rights leader and Missouri’s first African-American congressman, die ...

WASHINGTON ‒ One by one, members of the Congressional Black Caucus honored the legacy of the late Georgia Rep. John Lewis, July 14, reading the works of the civil rights icon and vowing to also get ...

William "Bill" Lacy Clay Sr., a civil rights leader and Missouri's first African-American Congressman, has died at the age of ...

Several of his former colleagues got up and spoke about Lewis’ impact on their lives and the lives of Americans across the ...

ST. LOUIS — William "Bill" Clay Sr., Missouri's first Black congressman and a St. Louis civil rights leader, died Thursday. He was 94.

Former St. Louis Congressman William “Bill” Clay Senior has died at the age of 94. KMOX Radio in St. Louis confirmed Clay’s ...

Actress Lupita Nyong'o joined the Congressional Black Caucus to lobby for funding, better treatments for uterine fibroids ...

We know that Black women are up to three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than white women.

Target is grappling with worsening financial and reputational fallout as the boycott launched by the Black Press of America ...

Bill Clay spent a lifetime being confrontational. The son of a welder, he became a leader of the street demonstrations that took on St. Louis power brokers and broke the ...