A close associate of Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis, he was involved in many of the key moments of the Black freedom ...

Voting rights organizer Bernard LaFayette has died. LaFayette's son says his father died Thursday morning of a heart attack.

Rev. Bernard Lafayette, who led the 1965 voting rights campaign in Selma, Alabama, an effort marked by violence toward civil ...

Indiana State Police ran targeted patrols across the Lafayette District over the weekend, cracking down on aggressive and impaired driving. Check out the results here.

The civil rights organizer helped lead the student sit-ins that desegregated Nashville’s lunch counters and later became a strategist in the Southern voting rights movement.

Bernard LaFayette, who is known for participating in the Freedom Rides and overseeing the voter registration campaign in ...

The civil rights pioneer Bernard Lafayette, who joined Freedom Rides and fought for voting rights in the Jim Crow South, has died at the age of 85. In the 1960s, Lafayette was a member of the Student ...

Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.

A Michigan man was arrested after leading Indiana State Police on a high-speed motorcycle chase. The chase began after the driver was clocked at 110 miles per hour on I-65. The pursuit spanned ...

Bernard LaFayette, a key strategist in the Civil Rights Movement who laid the groundwork for the historic Selma voting rights campaign that helped lead to the passage of the ...

ST. LOUIS – In the mid-20th century, urban planners envisioned a north-south connector highway through the City of St. Louis, an expressway supporting the city’s growing interstate network. But it ...