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With an enthusiastic crowd filling Memphis' Mason Temple Church of God in Christ, the atmosphere was heavy with nostalgia Tuesday for the evening 50 years ago that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his final speech.

Minneapolis, MN -- The leader of a Muslim civil rights group in Minnesota says his organization is taking a new approach to countering hateful messages - and he's asking non-Muslims to get involved. Jaylani Hussein is executive director of the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal officials in Minneapolis are set to announce whether they believe the civil rights of a 24-year-old black man were violated last November in a confrontation with two police officers during which he was fatally shot.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Vikings defensive tackle Tom Johnson is suing Minneapolis and two of its police officers, accusing them of violating his civil rights

CHICAGO (AP) — A federal civil trial pitting two panhandlers against one of the nation's largest sheriff's departments got underway Monday, in a case stemming from a lawsuit that alleges the men were improperly stopped from begging at a popular Chicago square.

FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Julian Bond, a civil rights activist and longtime board chairman of the NAACP, has died. He was 75.

SELMA, Ala. (AP) — People are remembering the bloody clashes that took place between police and demonstrators 50 years ago during the civil rights struggle.