The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund is awarding $8.5 million in ...

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 ...

Democracy needs defending. This generation has a rendezvous to cross its Edmund Pettus Bridge. Let them take inspiration from ...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his demonstrators stream over an Alabama River bridge at the city limits of Selma, Ala., ...

Appointed by President Donald Trump in January 2025, interim US attorney Ed Martin is under scrutiny for making false and derogatory statements leading up to and during his current tenure, The ...

The next morning, more consequences awaited Cunningham at Male High School. The principal, Williams Standford Milburn, called ...

This month, our nation remembers the heroes of Selma, Alabama.  Sixty years ago, they marched for voting rights, survived brutal beatings, and inspired the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

The protesters of the civil rights movement didn’t just show up. They planned for every eventuality. It’s a lesson that’s starkly relevant today.

During the height of the civil rights movement, it served as a gathering place for activists and leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who reportedly considered the restaurant’s fried chicken ...

John Reynolds returned to Selma for the 60th anniversary of both the SCOPE program and the Selma to Montgomery march.

Hundreds took to the Brooklyn Bridge on March 9 to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the historic yet ...