Charles Cobb Jr. played an integral role in getting Black people registered to vote during the Mississippi Freedom Summer ...

Civil rights champions have diverse college journeys. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. may be the most recognized civil rights leader in U.S. history, but across many decades, numerous Black activists ...

Samuel L. Jackon's Super Bowl LIX cameo was a full-circle moment reflecting his lifelong commitment to social commentary and ...

Katie Mitchell, an Atlanta author and owner of Instagram store Good Books ATL, spent two years touring the country’s Black bookstores.

These days, it’s not uncommon to see a white person joining the Black-founded Greek organizations of the Divine Nine. Though, ...

One major achievement is the organization’s new library, which will be formally dedicated to retired librarian and literacy ...

PONTIAC — Within its first decade of operation, the Underground Railroad was estimated to have helped about 100,000 enslaved ...

Kingdom of No TomorrowBy Fabienne JosaphatAlgonquin Books/Hatchette Nettie Boileau had choices to make. Should she sign up with the revolution ...

This Powerful Stokely Carmichael Portrait Never Made It to the Cover of Time Magazine The artwork, by famed artist Jacob Lawrence, captured the turning point in the Civil Rights Movement June 2016 ...

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