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“Her voice will be missed, I think even by those who hated to see her walk into the meeting,” brother says

It’s widely understood that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. evolved significantly on the issue of reparations during his short lifetime. Toward the start of his career, he was a moralist in his thinking, rather than the radical economic thinker he later became. In 2018, I befriended Dr. King’s…

Civil rights activists and some lawmakers are concerned that new redistricting maps in three Southern states will dilute the voices of Black people

In early August the White House invited an all-white group of historians to talk about threats to American democracy.

A fight is brewing in Tennessee over a legendary civil rights and labor organizing center whose alumni and supporters include Rosa Parks and Eleanor Roosevelt

WASHINGTON — Civil rights leaders warned about the dangers white supremacy poses to the US following a meeting with President Joe Biden.

For decades, the public face of North Carolina’s NAACP has been an energetic organization unbending in its fight against injustice.

St Werburgh's, St Paul's and the city centre will come to a standstill for 'the giant' of Bristol's history

If you ask Sheryl Lee Ralph about the educators who played a pivotal role in her life, she'll begin listing them without hesitation: her dad, her mom, her auntie Carolyn and so on. Then she'll get to her kindergarten teacher, Miss Spencer. Her eyes light up as she disappears into…

As a child growing up in Fort Worth, Texas, in the 1960s and early ’70s, Marvin Richardson lived through school desegregation and the racial turmoil that followed the passage of the Civil Rights Act. He lived through the “fears and challenges” that came with being Black in the South, he…

Five-day event will undermine secular values, say Rajasthan civil rights groups