On Feb. 27, the Ohio Civil Rights Commission (OCRC) recognized the winners of the OCRC 2025 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Art, Essay & Multimedia Contest in a ceremony at the Ohio State Highway Patrol ...

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 ...

In 1978, a who’s who of conservative evangelical leaders met in Chicago to draft a statement on biblical inerrancy. It would ...

Civil rights are not reversible. Once the ratchet of rights has been opened, they cannot tighten. This was the argument of Martin Luther King, Jr, who stated numerous times, including after the famous ...

Rex" Shields from Flint, who at age 17 became the first woman in history to win the gold medal in the 2012 Olympic boxing, ...

Holding hands with other prominent Black leaders, the Rev. Jesse Jackson crossed the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Alabama, ...

The campaign, called “ Everyone250 ” aims to tell a broader range of stories about the country and its history over the past ...

Discover how the brutal treatment of Black citizens in Selma, Alabama, in 1965 led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act and shaped American history.

There’s a cryptic sign outside the playlot in Jackson Park at 56th Street and Cornell Avenue that just reads “Dickerson Playground.” It’s referring to Earl B. Dickerson, a man who ...

My mother’s side of the genealogical tree is made up of Cochrans who settled in North Georgia. Before the Civil War, they had ...

But McGovern, who lost every state except Massachusetts and D.C., had nothing over slick-backed California Gov. Gavin Newsom, ...