Sixty years ago today the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March concluded with Martin Luther King Jr. speaking before a ...

South Dakota might be right at the heart of a fun idea to celebrate American history as we head into the nation's ...

The older son, named for his father, is the more obviously wayward. Raised to uphold Solomon’s political legacy, Junior ...

The City of Montgomery is finishing up celebrations commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery March.

A high-impact exhibition on the civil rights activist—who orchestrated the 1963 March on Washington—opens at the National ...

To light the candle is to resist. We must resist like Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, who founded the Congressional Union for ...

Eight Places You Need to Visit and Understand Chicago’s Black Freedom Struggle   Go to Montgomery, Alabama today and markers ...

Gray recalled the last time he spoke to longtime friend U.S. Rep. John Lewis about a week before Lewis' death. Lewis was ...

Many on the Left are wondering what to do against the Trump administration’s vicious assaults on workers, immigrants, and free speech. We can look to the example of US civil rights activists, who kept ...

Connection weaved through the birthplace of rock ‘n’ roll and into the lives of several southern Illinoisans as a local ...

Martin Lewis has urged couples to make sure ... founder issued a further warning to couples who are living together, but aren't married or in a civil partnership. In the eyes of the law, your ...

but it requires us to not just keep retelling the stories of some of the more prominent Black figures throughout history like Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, ...