Tag: Martin Luther King Jr.

(AURN News) — Tom Houck, a longtime civil rights activist and former aide to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has died…

(AURN News) — This Labor Day, America is celebrating workers, but the latest numbers show the workplace is still not equal. The…

WASHINGTON (AURN News) — House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries is joining the Rev. Al Sharpton, Martin Luther King III and Arndrea Waters…

(AURN News) — According to CNN, artist Betye Saar, whose work explored Black identity, culture and spirituality, has died at 99. A…

(AURN News) — Florida Black businesses will be coming together for the Gainesville Black Business Expo Weekend. Scheduled for July 17-18, organizers…

(AURN News) — Clarence B. Jones, one of the architects of the civil rights movement, has died at 95, according to The…

(AURN News) — Ronald Smothers, a veteran journalist who spent 35 years at The New York Times covering protest, politics and racial…

(AURN News) — Tomorrow marks 58 years since Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee,…

WASHINGTON (AURN News) — The nation begins its final farewell today to a titan of the civil rights movement, the Rev. Jesse…

(AURN News) — Rev. Jesse Jackson has died at age 84. This morning, Rev. Al Sharpton called him one of the nation’s…

(AURN News) — President Donald Trump issued a proclamation this week marking Black History Month. The action comes as his administration continues…

(AURN News) — “A recent claim by President Donald Trump that the 1964 Civil Rights Act harmed white Americans is just wrong,…