The NAACP’s 116th annual convention opened in Charlotte over the weekend. The theme is “the fierce urgency of now,” a phrase borrowed from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that organizers say speaks even ...

Most of my colleagues will ignore the new IRS ruling. They will refuse to endorse or condemn political candidates or to have ...

When a white teacher at Decatur High School used the n-word in class in 2022, students walked out and marched in protest. But ...

Social justice advocates are creating a LGBTQ+ history archive that celebrates Bayard Rustin, a major organizer in the Civil ...

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Inductees Harriette Gillem Robinet, Timuel Black and Oscar Brown Jr. are not only celebrated writers but civil rights activists who promoted a message of perseverance.

Mt. Olive Baptist Church, 306 S Martin Luther King Jr Blvd., Longview, has set a revival at 7 p.m. July 16, 30 and Aug. 6. Guests are: July 16, the ...

The West Hunter Street Baptist Church in Northwest Atlanta, a site deeply rooted in the Civil Rights Movement, may soon be ...

CNN anchor Abby Phillip will publish a new biography about Rev. Jesse Jackson in fall 2025. 'A Dream Deferred: Jesse Jackson ...

President Jimmy Carter posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.

Guidry grew up in Texas and graduated from Clark Atlanta University, Yale Divinity School and has a Ph.D. from ...