According to the Seymour Tribune, a memoir by the late civil-rights pioneer Dovey Johnson Roundtree will not only be…
If you drive along Mississippi’s Tallahatchie river, you might encounter a purple sign at Graball Landing. The marker…
Civil rights icon and U.S. Congressman John Lewis was hospitalized Saturday after falling ill on a flight to Atlanta,…
Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) is a living legend of the civil rights movement and we get to take selfies with him. We can…
Poet, author, singer, dancer, director and civil rights activist Maya Angelou would have been 90 years old today. In…
After speaking to a rapt crowd on March 18, 1968, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. returned to Memphis, Tenn., as…
The Rev. Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker, a fierce civil rights advocate and strategist over many generations, died Tuesday at his…
I wanted to be able to come here and speak with you on this occasion because you are young, gifted and black. ... I,…
In the 50th year since his assassination in 1968, much has and will be said about Martin Luther King Jr., the civil…
She was a fearless fighter for our freedom, and one of the first of her kind: She was Frankie Muse Freeman, a brilliant…
Simeon Booker, the trailblazing black journalist known for detailing African-American life in Ebony and Jet magazines,…
Chokwe Antar Lumumba, Jackson, Miss.’s revolutionary mayor, will not be sharing the stage with President Donald Trump…
Myrlie Evers-Williams once had a hard time understanding how her husband could still love their home state of…
Cheers are in order for the living legend, the Rev. Al Sharpton, as he celebrates 50 years in the civil rights…
There is one universal subject that cannot be ignored when explaining history, dissecting the status of marginalized…
A memorial sign that marks the location where Emmett Till's brutalized body was discovered in a Mississippi river in…
Thomas Blanton Jr., 86, the last living convicted bomber in the 1963 attack on the 16th Street Baptist Church in…
The documentary The Amazing Nina Simone, by filmmaker Jeff L. Lieberman, provides an intimate look at the life of…
On Saturday, as protests mounted across the country following the police killings of Alton Sterling and Philando…
Tuesday was the day that U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) and other Democrats went back to Congress to figure out what to…
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