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VIDEO - Simeon Wright had no idea he would witness the kidnapping of the man whose murder launched the civil…
OPINION - The civil rights movement is also rooted in African-American women's long struggle against sexual violence...
theGRIO REPORT - They said they're often asked about that day in 1963, what it was like, how they felt…
WASHINGTON (AP) - Beck's rally on the anniversary and at the site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have…
Marc Morial is one of the award recipients at a conference breakfast in downtown Baltimore for the National Organization of…
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Texas State Board of Education adopted a social studies and history curriculum that amends or…
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Critics, including the president of the NAACP, a former U.S. education secretary and the committee that…
OPINION - A fitting tribute for Height would be for all of us in the black community to recommit to…
ATLANTA (AP) - More than 50 years after Emmett Till was killed for allegedly whistling at a white woman, one…
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) - Next year's commemoration of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Rides is expected to dwarf any other tourism…
SLIDESHOW - Height, whose activism on behalf of women and minorities dated to the New Deal, led the National Council…
OPINION - Dorothy Height reminds us that even long lives are far too short, and that the time for action…
The late Dorothy Height dedicated every moment of her being to service, to create the best world possible for all...
VIDEO - Take a ride down Broad Street in Selma, and history will greet you nearly every block...
Although her name is not widely recognized, this pioneer played in important role in one of the most important events…
OPINION - Malcolm's legacy has been treated like the neglected step-child of the African-American struggle for freedom and equality...
VIDEO - At a June 1964 rally, Malcolm X criticizes the Civil Rights Bill emerging from Congress...
VIDEO - A new film looks at how the tragic murder of a Vietnam veteran prompted a small North Carolina…