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 ...

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 ...

Art Broady’s free presentation, "The Dream … We Almost Never Heard," will be at noon Sunday, March 16, at First ...

Talladega Mayor Ashton Hall, Finance Director Shenika Phillips and City Manager Derrick Swantson delivered a state of the ...

Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're ...

St. Patrick’s Day in Clover is a two-day event. The kickoff happens 6-9 p.m. Friday with food trucks, a beer garden and music ...

Sixty years after Bloody Sunday, the SPLC honors 40 civil rights martyrs with a ceremony focused on today’s fight to preserve ...

Jillian Pirtle made a promise to keep Marian Anderson's legacy alive through the tiny museum house and she's not letting ...

The protesters of the civil rights movement didn’t just show up. They planned for every eventuality. It’s a lesson that’s starkly relevant today.

The Rhode Island Foundation awarded nearly $87 million in grants to more than 2,500 nonprofit organizations in 2024.