AFRICAN-AMERICA FANS AND THEIR ACCOMPLISHMENTS. IN HONOR OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH, HERE’S THE STORY OF DR. RALPH BUNCHE, WHO AT ONE TIME CALLED ALBUQUERQUE HOME. OH, ALL THE FAMOUS I HAVE A DREAM SPEECH ...

Dr. Ralph J. Bunche earned the moniker “a hero of U.S. Diplomacy,” in part for efforts that led to his becoming the first African American to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Sign up for our Daily eBlast to ...

This holiday season as the fragile ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas holds, another one of the rare, hopeful moments in modern Middle East history marks its 75th anniversary. On Dec. 10, 1950 ...

For his success in ending the war between Israel and her Arab neighbors, broad-shouldered Dr. Ralph Johnson Bunche had been showered with 40 awards and medals and 20 honorary academic degrees. One ...

The legacy of Ralph Bunche / Benjamin Rivlin -- Race, class, and politics / John B. Kirby -- Civil rights and national security / Charles P. Henry -- Ralph Bunche the Africanist / Nathan Irvin Huggins ...

In April 1949, President Harry S. Truman offered Ralph Bunche a coveted position as the assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern, South Asian and African affairs. The position would make Bunche, ...

Ralph Bunche received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s work as a United Nations mediator in the Palestine conflict. He called himself 'an incurable optimist'. Bunche was the first African ...