WASHINGTON (AURN News) — The nation begins its final farewell today to a titan of the civil rights movement, the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr.,
(AURN News) — The Rev. Jesse L. Douglas Sr., a trusted lieutenant to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who quietly orchestrated key civil rights marches,
Sixty years after the Voting Rights Act was signed into law, the very protections that marched Americans from Selma to the ballot box are hanging
The Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice will launch a digital archive this fall to honor Bayard Rustin’s life and legacy, according to the Associated
On March 7, 1965, approximately 600 activists embarked on a 54-mile journey from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, the state capital. Their march was a response
Black history is not a summary of North-Star-slavery-escape stories that end with Black people receiving their freedom after a famous (often shortened) dream speech. Blackness’s
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
High-level Republican sources shared with AURN that Cleveland, Ohio pastor Darrell Scott is the architect of the White House’s plan to deliver a race relations
President Barack Obama and the First Family marked the milestone anniversary of the horrifying page in black history known as “Bloody Sunday” in Selma, Alabama.
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