Malcolm X had been a public critic of King and rejected the Nobel Peace Prize winner’s direction on race relations.

Mary Jamila Dozier-Jones was only 8 years old when she started the Montgomery Gospel Trio with Minnie Hendricks-McKents and Gladys Burnett-Carter. They used their gift for song to encourage civil ...

The Bailey-Johnson School was the first to offer a public high school education to Black students in Fulton County. A photo ...

King led several nonviolent campaigns in Birmingham, known at the time as "the most segregated city in America." ...

"It introduces a new way to understand the city," UNLV Associate Professor Tyler Parry said of the Westside of Las Vegas.

The youngest child of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King is an attorney, minister, and civil rights advocate.

Unlike most cities, especially in the south, Atlanta has consistently been run by Black politicians since 1974, and there’s a ...

On February 7, 4th and 5th grade students from Hutto Elementary School (HES) embarked on a memorable Footsteps of Freedom ...

Nearly 10 years ago, the New York University professor, historian and Pulitzer Prize winner was sitting in historic First Congregational Church, admiring a triptych of stained glass windows installed ...

Tampa's 48th mayor, Julian B. Lane, played a role in the Civil Rights Movement as one of the first southern mayors to support ...

Andrew Young is a pivotal figure in the civil rights movement, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and a two-term mayor of Atlanta. The nation last saw him as he delivered a heartfelt ...

Black History Month is the perfect time to get acquainted with some of the many African American historical sites that dot the South. There is plenty of Black history and culture worth exploring in ...