In honor of the legacy of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Annual Memorial Program will be held at 6 p.m. April 3 at the King Monument Plaza, corner of South  Ashley Street and Martin Luther ...

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 ...

The act was passed in parliament in November 1965 - two years after civil rights activists in Bristol boycotted the Bristol ...

Eddie George was pondering the next steps in his burgeoning career as a college football coach while driving back from the ...

The Root recently reported on Kingsley Wilson, one of the president’s deputy press secretaries at the Defense Department, and ...

Webb said her career has been defined not by personal ambition, but by a desire to create opportunities for others, ...

On the 60th anniversary of Lyndon Johnson’s voting rights speech, we are reminded how government can address concerns with ...

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 ...

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

Algernon “Algie” Ward, a city champion, historian, trailblazer, and longtime community activist, has passed following a ...

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