Civil rights activist Raoul Cunningham retired as president of the Branch NAACP after two decades leading the organization.

Civil Rights icon and Nashville native Vencen Horsley has died. Horsley participated in sit-ins and fought against ...

Charleston Cigar Factory, the site of a months-long strike in 1945 and 1946 led by Black women workers, has being recognized ...

And we shall overcome." In his closing words, the president invoked a rallying cry of the civil rights movement. An SCLC staffer watching the speech with Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.

Some seven decades after the couple was killed by a Christmas Day bomb, Harry and Harriette Moore will be honored in Mims.

Since the murder of George Floyd in 2020, some White people have been wondering how they can work with Black people to fight ...

Yesterday I learned that we lost a great man who was truly a pillar of our community and our city, Vencen Horsley. Vencen was ...

Visit Mississippi recently unveiled its latest Mississippi Freedom Trail marker commemorating civil rights leader Victoria ...

A more than century-old Charleston landmark picked up a rare new designation Tuesday morning from the Department of the ...

But Hughes is one of a handful of artists whose work spanned both the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement of the ...

Gloria Arellanes became famous for her Brown Beret portrait, but she also led a free clinic. In East Los Angeles, a new ...

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