The NAACP is honoring John Lewis for his Congressional service and long history as a civil rights activist.

A Stanford historian tasked with caring for the university’s copies of Martin Luther King Jr.’s speeches, writings and other artifacts says he is worried about what will happen to the collection after he retires in August.

The decades-long controversy over a Marin County School District is coming to a head. Some members of the Dixie School District want the name changed and on Tuesday they delivered petitions to the superintendent. The school board is meeting Tuesday night to discuss what to do next. Mark Matthews reports.

Elected officials, religious leaders, music stars and Detroit sports heroes gathered Monday at a church to remember longtime U.S. Rep. John Conyers. Former President Bill Clinton, civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer were among the speakers at Conyers’ funeral at Greater Grace Temple in Detroit. They were joined by several current and former...

Alabama’s capital, a city once known as the cradle of the Confederacy and later the birthplace of the civil rights movement, elected its first African American mayor Tuesday. Probate Judge Steven Reed, 45, clasped the history-making victory to be elected the next mayor of Montgomery after defeating businessman David Woods by a decisive margin. Reed won about 67% of the...

A Campbell man is asking for his four snakes and lizard back after the reptiles were stolen over the weekend in San Jose.

Students at Pittsburg’s Martin Luther King Jr. Junior High School will march Friday in the school’s 3rd annual Million Father March, school officials said.

Police detectives on Sunday arrested a suspect in a shooting incident at San Jose State University last week.

Police detectives on Sunday arrested a suspect in a shooting incident at San Jose State University last week.

The San Jose State University campus alert has been lifted, but police have not announced any arrest after a shooting at the library on campus Thursday.

Crews recovered a body from Airport Channel in San Leandro Bay Saturday morning, Oakland fire officials said.

Crews recovered a body from Airport Channel in San Leandro Bay Saturday morning, Oakland fire officials said.

Two people are in police custody after Berkeley and Oakland police responded to reports of a man armed with a gun.

It started out as a joke but a petition to rename the Fifth Avenue block by Trump Tower to “President Barack H. Obama Avenue” had more than 302,000 signatures by Thursday afternoon — and a new mission calling for 325,000 signatures after the previous goal was surpassed.

A bicyclist killed while riding into eastbound traffic on state Highway 24 in Oakland on Wednesday afternoon has been identified as 83-year-old Youxing Zhang, according to the Alameda County coroner’s bureau.

Fire crews and the California Highway Patrol responded Wednesday to the scene of a reported vehicle vs. cyclist fatal collision off Highway 24 in Oakland.

A group of students from Spelman and Morehouse colleges who’ve been studying Michelle Obama’s memoir, “Becoming,” had a surprise visitor to discuss the work — the former first lady herself. Obama came to Spelman to talk with the students Saturday about the best-selling book ahead of her sold-out appearance Saturday night at State Farm Arena in downtown Atlanta. Obama encouraged...