Nadia Brooks still has her trophy from when she placed second in Oakland Unified’s Martin Luther King Jr. Oratorical Festival. She won it 17 years ago, as a second grader at Fruitvale Elementary ...

Such nostalgia can include favorable feelings for three Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices who, over the course of ...

Go to Montgomery, Alabama today and markers to the civil rights movement dot the city landscape: Dr. King’s house, the place where Rosa Parks was arrested, homes of other activists like E.D ...

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

Eugenia Bless Coleman has reached the age of 18--but with a depth of thoughtfulness far beyond her years, especially ...

In 1949, a five-part series in the New York Post, entitled “22 Days on a Chain Gang,” compellingly documented the day-to-day grind experienced by men being held in a North Carolina prison.

What sets spoken word artist and new Milwaukee Poet Laureate Shelly Conley apart from others is her vulnerability and honesty ...

(RNS) — I always tell people that, as a college professor, I got to do the two things I loved best in the world — read and talk. One thing I miss most now that I am emerita is the opportunity ...

SEMINOLE — The Sounds of Soul will perform at First Friday Seminole, set for Friday, April 4, 6 to 9 p.m., in front of Studio ...