The program included a sampling of Black History, awards for “Community Changemakers” Crystal Williams and Bob and Sandy ...

Raymond Pace Alexander was born in Philadelphia in 1897 in the 7th Ward, currently Central City, where many working-class Black Americans lived. His parents moved north to Philadelphia in search of ...

Marlean Ames of Akron, Ohio, is not gay or a member of a racial minority. But, please, she points out, don’t hold that against her, as she alleges her employers have, as she takes her ...

As a college president who is passionate about expanding access to education, I don’t have all the answers right now. But I ...

Block by Block continues with a look inside a Savannah neighborhood where several civil rights leaders once lived.

The one at Tampa’s F.W. Woolworth store started on Feb. 29, 1960. It was led, in part, by Clarence Fort, who was the NAACP ...

As Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks became some of the movement’s national faces, Rev. R.R. Wilkinson became the face ...

Plan called upon every organization in town, “from the Chamber of Commerce to the Cub Scouts,” to come up with “one project, ...

Claudette Colvin in 1954 PHOTO COURTESY OF DGT “I knew then and I know now that, when it comes to justice, there is no easy ...