Eig said the “watering down” of King’s radical message is intentional, noting that King’s close friend Harry Belafonte believed the national holiday was designed to destroy King’s power — the holiday ...

Civil rights are not reversible. Once the ratchet of rights has been opened, they cannot tighten. This was the argument of Martin Luther King, Jr, who stated numerous times, including after the famous ...

Discover how the brutal treatment of Black citizens in Selma, Alabama, in 1965 led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act and shaped American history.

Young was Georgia’s first Black congressional representative in more than a century; former United Nations Ambassador; 53rd ...

John Conyers—the longest-serving African-American member of Congress in history—first introduced the “Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for the African-Americans Act,” or United ...

There’s a cryptic sign outside the playlot in Jackson Park at 56th Street and Cornell Avenue that just reads “Dickerson Playground.” It’s referring to Earl B. Dickerson, a man who ...

As Blacks and Americans, we are facing a historic moment, and it is a moment that African American faith leaders must again ...

But McGovern, who lost every state except Massachusetts and D.C., had nothing over slick-backed California Gov. Gavin Newsom, ...

The Supreme Court’s most enduring ruling on race is not 1954’s Brown vs. Board of Education but a 1974 decision, Milliken v.

Government shutdown looms as Democrats say they won’t back GOP spending bill - The European Commission and Canada have both ...

The Trump administration moved its fast-paced dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development toward what ...