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She is a matriarch, an inspiration. Annie Mae Perry's life spans nearly a century, and her story is intertwined with the stories of this community.
Many Americans are flocking to the country’s beaches this weekend to celebrate the Fourth of July. These sandy retreats hold ...
Discover some of the architecture and history of Cleveland's Black churches, many of which congregations are trying to ...
More than 60 years after a white supremacist assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers, his daughter still sees the same ...
Civil and voting rights activists gathered in Jackson, Mississippi, to honor what would have been the 100th birthday of civil ...
The corner of South 45th Street and Varble Avenue in the Chickasaw neighborhood was dedicated as "Raoul Cunningham Way, ...
In the repetitious cadence of Martin Luther King Jr.’s most famous speech, “I have a dream” was followed by “one day.” Those two words, “one day,” made us look to the heavens with promise, hope and ...
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore's mother told him that patience sometimes is a virtue, and sometimes it is a detriment. When it comes ...
WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. – The Arkansas Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission held a Nonviolence Youth Summit in West Memphis on Saturday. The keynote speaker for the event was actress and producer Vivica A.
Juneteenth marks the day when slavery ended in the United States, and across the country, people celebrate. On June 19, 1865, ...
This Juneteenth we need to discard the caricatures of King that we so often see and learn from what he actually did and ...