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(AURN News) — Tomorrow marks 58 years since Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee,…
(AURN News) — Pioneering radio broadcaster and activist Bob Law has died at 86, Newsday reported. The Brooklyn native built a decades-long…
On this day, Clara Hale, known as “Mother Hale,” was born Clara McBride in 1905 in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Orphaned at…
(AURN News) — The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 against Colorado’s ban on “conversion therapy” for LGBTQ+ minors, siding with a Christian counselor…
(AURN News) — Massive “No Kings” protests swept across the country on March 28, marking the third coordinated wave of demonstrations against…
(AURN News) — The NAACP has named former Justice Department civil rights chief Kristen Clarke as its new general counsel, signaling a…
(AURN News) — On March 25, 1931, nine Black teenage boys were falsely accused of raping two white women on a train…
(AURN News) — A California civil jury found Bill Cosby liable for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 1972, awarding her…
(AURN News) — The Justice Department has asked a federal judge to drop the remaining criminal charges against two Louisville police officers…
On this day, March 20, Shelton Jackson “Spike” Lee was born in 1957, marking the arrival of one of film’s most iconic…
On this day, March 19, 1897, Loretta Mary Aiken, better known as comedian Jackie “Moms” Mabley, was born in North Carolina. Beginning…
(AURN News) — On this day, March 18, 1963, Vanessa Williams, a trailblazing entertainer, was born. Williams was born in Millwood, New…