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 ...

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

The Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice will launch a digital archive this fall featuring articles, photos, videos, ...

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 ...

1989: Phil Jackson was hired as head coach of the Chicago Bulls, replacing Doug Collins. After the Bulls won their sixth championship trophy, Jackson departed — and so did Michael Jordan and Scottie ...

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

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

In his eulogy for three of the four girls killed in the Sept. 15, 1963, bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ticked off a list of people and ...

Black male enrollment at HBCUs is at a 50-year low. This essay explores how the loss of Black teachers after Brown v. Board ...

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 ...