Maxine Smith, Dorothy Truitt Walk and Cornelia Crenshaw were civil rights leaders who challenged injustice and made a ...

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

The album was recorded in 1964, the height of the Civil Rights Movement and the same year Martin Luther King Jr. won the Nobel Peace Prize. Listening to it now, it’s hard not to make that ...

Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux was a renowned Black preacher and broadcaster. Radio Diaries' series "Making Waves" looks at ...

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

The National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel will present a commemoration in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s life and legacy on Friday, April 4, the 57th anniversary of his death with ...

Community Baptist Church, 28W444 Main St. in Warrenville, is hosting a “Service of Remembrance and Action” on Friday, April 4, as they gather to honor the life and legacy of the Rev. Martin ...

The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1965. A housing developer and a local artist group in Arlington are partnering to commemorate the Civil Rights Movement with plans for a sculpture. A new ...

you'll find engaging exhibits on the civil rights movement and the D.R.E.A.M. Gallery, featuring additional exhibits. Next door to Ebenezer Baptist Church stands the Martin Luther King ...

Carl Kramer was a senior at Anderson University when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. He remembers comforting a ...