Oretha Castle Haley’s childhood home in New Orleans, located in the Treme neighborhood, has been granted a place on the National Register of Historic Places,
On September 8, 1954, civil rights activist Ruby Bridges was born. Ruby’s name has become synonymous with courage and resilience, as she fearlessly became the
On May 30, 1943, civil rights activist James Chaney was born in Meridian, Mississippi. Tragically, his life was cut short in June 1964, at the
On April 3, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously delivered his final speech at the Mason Temple Church of God in Christ in Memphis,
This is Clay Cane Civil Rights Activist Timuel Black Jr. Dies At 102 Labor organizer and civil rights activist Timuel Black Jr. died onOct. 13
The NOI offered another path to Black freedom.
In 1976, James Baldwin released a book titled The Devil Finds Work. It’s a critical analysis of Hollywood movies in which he asserts that American
AURN’s Tanya Hart narrates a short documentary produced by Al Merk and features an unexpected story from a former KKK member.
Efforts to to honor the late Maryland Congressman John Lewis continue this week in Washington, DC. Over the weekend, a motorcade carried Lewis traveled through
I remember my late grandmother – “Gamma” to three-year-old me – coming back glowing after she’d seen April. April was a woman I met only
Simeon Wright, who was with his cousin Emmett Till when the Chicago boy was kidnapped in 1955 after allegedly whistling at a white woman in
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