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WASHINGTON (AURN News) — The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation opens its 55th Annual Legislative Conference on Wednesday with a message centered on…
(AURN News) — On June 10, 1940, Marcus Garvey, the pioneering leader of the Black nationalist and Pan-African movements, died in London…
(AURN News) — Tomorrow, the streets of Alabama will echo with footsteps that history has heard before. The stakes are new, but…
(AURN News) — Tomorrow marks 58 years since Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee,…
WASHINGTON (AURN News) — A new opportunity aimed at shaping the next generation of Black policy leaders is now open, as the…
(AURN News) — Speakers at the homegoing service for civil rights leader Jesse Louis Jackson recalled the chants and phrases that defined…
(AURN News) — Thirty-five years ago today, Rodney King, a Black motorist, was kicked, struck with a Taser and beaten by four…
(AURN News) — “A recent claim by President Donald Trump that the 1964 Civil Rights Act harmed white Americans is just wrong,…
(AURN News) — On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, civil rights leaders are drawing a line between Dr. King’s legacy and what…
(AURN News) — On this day in 1983, civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson announced his historic run for president of…
(AURN News) — The Rev. Jesse L. Douglas Sr., a trusted lieutenant to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who quietly orchestrated key…
Activists behind a national Target boycott say foot traffic has dropped in nearly 2,000 stores since January, proof their pressure is working,…