Fifty years after Martin Luther King was assassinated, new museums and memorials are highlighting the civil rights movement, writes Isabel Conway, as she travels from Tennessee to Mississippi.

Demonstrators protested in three California cities against the acquittal of George Zimmerman and officials say they broke windows and vandalised cars in Oakland.

He’s in jail for a hate crime — but his black friends disagree. Tony Dokoupil reports

An 80-year-old former Ku Klux Klansman was convicted of manslaughter Tuesday in the 1964 deaths of three civil rights workers – exactly 41 years after they disappeared.