The act was passed in parliament in November 1965 - two years after civil rights activists in Bristol boycotted the Bristol ...

At the Rapides Parish Coliseum on November 22, 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood before educators at the 65th session of the Louisiana Education Association, delivering a speech titled “Remaining ...

In 1966, Simone wrote and performed “Four Women,” a musical portrait of different stereotyped Black women who were exploited ...

Democracy needs defending. This generation has a rendezvous to cross its Edmund Pettus Bridge. Let them take inspiration from ...

Jane Conover was selected for the award by YWCA York’s board of directors for her outstanding commitments that embody the values of Dorrie Leader.

Philadelphia would cut business tax rates every year and begin spending hundreds of millions of newly allocated dollars on ...

The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund is awarding $8.5 million in ...

In the latest salvo in Donald Trump ’s trade war against U.S. allies, the president threatened a 200 percent tariff on ...

Calling all history buffs! Step back in time at one of these significant sites in each state, from Revolutionary War ...

A Palestinian human rights advocate, Mahmoud Khalil, has been kidnapped from his Columbia University residence and illegally ...