At the Rapides Parish Coliseum on November 22, 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood before educators at the 65th session of the Louisiana Education Association, delivering a speech titled “Remaining ...

Art Broady’s free presentation, "The Dream … We Almost Never Heard," will be at noon Sunday, March 16, at First ...

In 1966, Simone wrote and performed “Four Women,” a musical portrait of different stereotyped Black women who were exploited ...

Democracy needs defending. This generation has a rendezvous to cross its Edmund Pettus Bridge. Let them take inspiration from ...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his demonstrators stream over an Alabama River bridge at the city limits of Selma, Ala., ...

Eig said the “watering down” of King’s radical message is intentional, noting that King’s close friend Harry Belafonte believed the national holiday was designed to destroy King’s power — the holiday ...

Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're ...

The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund is awarding $8.5 million in ...

Wednesday's storm caused some damage to "The Dream Oak," an important fixture for not just the Gloucester Institute's grounds ...

There’s a cryptic sign outside the playlot in Jackson Park at 56th Street and Cornell Avenue that just reads “Dickerson Playground.” It’s referring to Earl B. Dickerson, a man who ...

The protesters of the civil rights movement didn’t just show up. They planned for every eventuality. It’s a lesson that’s starkly relevant today.

John Reynolds returned to Selma for the 60th anniversary of both the SCOPE program and the Selma to Montgomery march.