A little after noon on Monday, the same day celebrating the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,...
Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges, one of the first black students to integrate an all-white elementary school in 1960, will...
Illuminating local history and celebrating unsung heroes, the Springfield-Greene County African-American Heritage Trail is preparing to grow. Eight markers on...
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SHREVEPORT, La. — Shreveport is celebrating the inaugural 318 MLK DreamFest, a series of events honoring the life and legacy of...
Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges, one of the first black students to integrate an all-white elementary school in 1960, will...
TRI-CITIES, Wash.- NAACP is the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization. Founded in 1909, the NAACP’s mission is to secure...
WASHINGTON – When President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in as president of the United States inside the Capitol’s rotunda, he...
President Joe Biden took the stage around 4 p.m. at the International African American Museum on Charleston Harbor after speaking at...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — President Joe Biden plans to visit a historic museum and an African American church during his...
On a Sunday in the summer of 1959, in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York,...
Hiram Rhodes Revels (born September 27, 1827, Fayetteville, North Carolina, U.S.—died January 16, 1901, Aberdeen, Mississippi) was an American clergyman,...