“Clara is tenacious,” says Belinda Dixon, a longtime friend and a 1994 Staten Island Woman of Achievement. “She’s not loud, ...

Advocates are gathering in Selma, Alabama, this weekend to mark the 60th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday" amid fears of a ...

A year later, in the spring of 1965, King sent out a call to white college students from the North like me and others at ...

Alongside Martin Luther King in that pivotal moment for civil rights marched Greek Orthodox Archbishop of the Americas Iakovos.

Crispus Attucks is shot and killed by British soldiers becoming the first American to die in the struggle for American Independence from England. Attucks was an escaped slave who became a sailor and ...

Congressman Al Green is a member of the House of Representatives, serving Texas’s 9th Congressional District. His ethnicity ...

Michael King Jr was born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15, 1929. His father, Michael King Sr, and mother, Alberta King, grew up involved in the church. Alberta’s father was a minister and Michael Sr ...

North Carolina and the country lost a legend last month with the death of the Rev. Dr. Nelson N. Johnson at age 81. He is ...

The Senate Committee on Government Efficiency heard a bill Monday that would ban state funding for diversity, equity and ...

A paralympian, tv host and astronaut are just a few of the honorees who describe in their own words what motivates them most.

People continue to share their heartache on social media after the death of longtime R&B and neo-soul singer/songwriter Angie ...

Fans are remembering the voice and songs of trailblazer Angie Stone after her death at 63 in a weekend crash on an Alabama ...