Voorhees University celebrated Dr. King's legacy with the 2nd Annual Community Breakfast, honoring individuals for their ...

Founded in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in Oakland, Calif., the party was part of the Black Power movement whose ...

The Kansas City men of Alpha Phi Alpha honored MLK Jr. with their 27th annual breakfast, featuring a panel on the future of ...

Before US President Donald J. Trump returned to the Oval Office and began systematically attacking initiatives related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) across US institutions, Alabama ...

The poet Maya Angelou remains beloved more than a decade after her death. Yet few lift up the power of her voice in the ...

Wood helped to coordinate Martin Luther King Jr.’s visit to Lynchburg ... which became a local unit of Dr. King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference,” Coleman recalled.

The dogs, hoses, and armored cars were not effective in the way that Bull Connor and much of white Birmingham wanted them to ...

Gloria Campbell, who died Thursday at 94, was an icon of the local Civil Rights Movement, along with her husband, Bishop Lawrence Campbell Sr. They both led civil rights protests in Danville at the ...

By LaKeshia N. Myers Fifty-five years after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his seminal “Where Do We Go From Here” speech to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, his prophetic words ...

The assassination of JFK in 1963 and of RFK and King in 1968 have long been the subject of conspiracy theories regarding the ...

Less than a week into his first term, President Donald Trump has been on a roll signing more than 20 executive orders and ...

At Syracuse University in 1965, Dr. King said "change is not self-operative; you cannot depend upon American institutions to function without prodding and pressuring." ...