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 ...

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

The Supreme Court’s most enduring ruling on race is not 1954’s Brown vs. Board of Education but a 1974 decision, Milliken v.

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Army veteran Stephan Smerk, 53, pleaded guilty in October to the 1994 stabbing death of 37-year-old Robin Lawrence, who was ...

There’s a cryptic sign outside the playlot in Jackson Park at 56th Street and Cornell Avenue that just reads “Dickerson ...

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

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

“Clara is tenacious,” says Belinda Dixon, a longtime friend and a 1994 Staten Island Woman of Achievement. “She’s not loud, ...

From its very beginning, Star Trek has been about moving forward with boundaries—not just in the genre of sci-fi but in real-world depiction as well.

Eyes on the Prize” was a landmark documentary about the Civil Rights Movement. Dream Defenders’ Phillip Agnew, who is part of ...

The preacher and civil rights activist tells us that we can all live and work together to make society a better place.