The University of Michigan has selected its next president. Kent Syverud, the current chancellor of Syracuse University, will be officially appointed as Michigan’s 16th president. Read full article: ...

Viola Gregg Liuzzo will be honored Friday with a posthumous doctor of laws degree by Wayne State University, but there are many other activities this week that will allow people to pay homage to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While Liuzzo is the only white woman honored at the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, 55 years after her murder, she remains an ...

DETROIT (AP) - A nonprofit will receive $125,000 to help beautify a Detroit park named for a mother slain while shuttling demonstrators after the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march.

A new monument to Civil Rights activist Viola Liuzzo, a Detroit mother of five who was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in 1965 near Selma, Ala., and the best friend who helped raise Liuzzo's children ...

Neighbors, supporters and city officials on Tuesday kicked off the restoration of a park on Detroit's west side that is named for Viola Liuzzo, a white Detroit woman who was killed in Alabama as she ...

A monument was unveiled Thursday in Detroit to commemorate a white mother who was slain in Alabama while shuttling demonstrators after the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march, along with the ...

From Selma to Sorrow: The Life and Death of Viola Liuzzo will tell the story of the wife and mother of five who died due to her affiliation with the civil rights movement. She was shot and killed by ...