Rosa Parks was an avid yoga practitioner. The way Parks took a stand for civil rights reflects many of the principles behind ...

The movement was civil and voting rights for Black Americans, and the subject was Vivian. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called him the greatest preacher he had ever seen. President Barack Obama ...

September 1963 saw a turning point for protest music following the tragic incident in Birmingham, Alabama, which inspired ...

Born in 1939 in Jim Crow Alabama—he labeled the all-encompassing segregation “American apartheid”—Whitten learned to paint ...

In 1905, just four decades removed from the end of the Civil War, Atlanta was a city where Black citizens were still an oppressed underclass, though a few had been able to carve out a bit of success ...

Since the beginning of our history on this continent, Black educators have performed a vital service to America in general ...

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The Alabama Supreme Court has cleared the way for the execution of a man whose innocence claim is supported by a juror from ...

Members of the crowd carried handmade signs like “My Mom fought for my future, now I will fight for her,” “Immigrant lives ...

Under a bright February sun, the streets of Florence echoed with unity and remembrance as the Pat Gibson Hye-Moore Black ...