CIVIL RIGHTS

MoD Finally Ready to Compensate Bloody Sunday Massacre Victims. Britain’s Ministry of Defence is finally ready to pay compensation to the families of those killed or injured in the Bloody Sunday Massacre in Northern Ireland in 1972

The state of Georgia executed Troy Davis Wednesday night after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-minute appeal for a stay.

The Supreme Court caused an astonishing last-minute delay to Troy Davis' execution on Wednesday, saying it needed time to review his appeal, CNN is reporting.

A last-ditch appeal on behalf of death row inmate Troy Davis was rejected on Wednesday, making it all but certain that Davis would be executed. Davis, 42, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at 7 p.m. EDT on Wednesday.

Protesters associated with the Occupy Wall Street movement have sworn to remain in Lower Manhattan's financial district until they see change, but on Tuesday afternoon they grappled with the possibility that they would not be allowed to stay in the small park that has served as a base camp.

Twenty-two Americans ranging from a radio journalist to a sports trainer received no-strings-attached genius grants worth $500,000 each, a charitable foundation announced on Tuesday.

The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles on Monday delayed a decision on the Troy Davis execution after hearing pleas from the families of both the inmate and the victim.

The Lion King is back on top of the movie jungle seventeen years after the film first hit theaters.

As thousands of people coordinated rallies in Atlanta to oppose the execution of the Troy Davis, the slain Savannah cop's mother on the other hand on Saturday said that Troy is not innocent and his execution will give me peace.

Thousands of people joined rallies in Atlanta and around the world on Friday night to oppose the execution of the Georgia death row inmate, Troy Davis.

A soon-to-be-auctioned Beatles contract for a 1965 California concert reveals that the Fab Four took a firm stand in support of the era's civil rights movement, refusing to play before a segregated audience.

For Troy Davis, 41, the crime is allegedly murdering a policeman and the punishment is death. He is scheduled to get the lethal injection on Wednesday, but as his execution date nears, hundreds of protest rallies are being held worldwide in order to stop the judicial killing.

Wal-Mart announced it plans on sourcing $20 billion in products from female-owned businesses in the U.S. over the next five years, while also enacting a number of programs aimed at helping women across the globe.

The U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs warned the Cherokee Nation that the U.S. government will not recognize the tribe's new principal chief if it does not reverse its decision to revoke tribal citizenship from the descendants of African American slaves.

Paul has repeatedly denied that he is a racist (as have his devoted supporters).

A police officer allegedly fatally shot a 14-year-old boy involved in a fight at a school bus stop, the teen's mother said in federal court.

2Pac died 15 years ago today as fans and fellow rappers still remember his legacy.

South Africa's firebrand ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema was found guilty on Monday of hate speech for singing an apartheid-era song that called for the killing of white farmers.

A book containing the details of a series of 1964 interviews that former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy gave to JFK aide Arthur M. Schlesinger is being released on Wednesday.

South African politician Julius Malema was found guilty of hate speech charges on Monday, but the crime will do little to stop the controversial leader's rise. Malema is one of South Africa's most polarizing figures, and he may well be the country's future.

Deadly virus thriller Contagion caught on with filmgoers and easily took the top spot at the weekend box office in the United States and Canada, according to studio estimates compiled by Reuters on Sunday.