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(AURN News) — The Rev. Jesse L. Douglas Sr., a trusted lieutenant to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who quietly orchestrated key…
(AURN News) — On Oct. 2, 1967, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first Black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court,…
On Sept. 19, 1963, at the height of the civil rights movement, Iota Phi Theta fraternity was founded on the campus of…
Joseph A. McNeil, one of four North Carolina A&T freshmen whose 1960 sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro helped ignite…
When most people think of Labor Day, they picture parades and barbecues. But for Black America, the struggle behind the holiday has…
On this day, Aug. 28, 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was kidnapped and brutally murdered while visiting relatives in Mississippi. The Black teenager…
On Aug. 19, 1958, the NAACP Youth Council, led by teacher Clara Luper and her students, launched a sit-in at the Katz…
Emmett Till was born in Chicago on July 25, 1941. He would have turned 84 years old today. A bright, fun-loving child,…
Five years ago today, we lost Congressman John Lewis — an icon of the civil rights movement and a moral compass in…
The Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice will launch a digital archive this fall to honor Bayard Rustin’s life and legacy, according…
On this day, we remember Congressman John Lewis, born on February 21, 1940. A champion for human rights, Lewis served as the…
On February 4, 1913, civil rights icon Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her defining moment came on December 1, 1955,…