MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS, N.Y., May 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Prison Ministry of The Riverside Church will host a coalition of formerly incarcerated New Yorkers and Michelle Alexander, author of the best-selling book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness for a discussion exploring issues of mass incarceration on Saturday, May 21, from 12:30 p.m.

By Kim O'Brien Root, Daily Press, Newport News, Va. Aug. 19--GLOUCESTER -- Irene Morgan Kirkaldy thought of herself as ordinary. But as a young black woman on a bus ride from Gloucester to Baltimore more than six decades ago, she refused to give up her seat to a white couple.

The Associated Press GLOUCESTER Irene Morgan Kirkaldy, a black woman whose refusal to give up her bus seat to white passengers triggered a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision more than a decade before Rosa Parks gained recognition for doing the same, has died. She was 90.

On what would become known as "Bloody Sunday," voting rights marchers in March 1965 reached the highest point on the Edmund Pettus Bridge near Selma, Ala., and saw a blue sea of uniforms awaiting them at the end of the bridge.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Fifty years after the U.S. Supreme Court decision outlawing school segregation, an Alabama law mandating racially separate classrooms is still on the books. Gov. Bob Riley and others concerned about the state's image are urging voters to approve a constitutional amendment on Nov.