To young and old today who want to make a change, Rita Omokha proclaims, “Tell yourself you can—and watch yourself prove it.” ...

Ledisi, who is a Grammy Award-winning singer cum songwriter, delivered her rendition of Lift Every Voice and Sing at the ...

She helped start the NAACP in Flagstaff and taught Black voters how to have their vote count. But her story is lost to time.

As Ella Baker noted, women were the "backbone of the civil rights movement," yet their contributions were often overlooked or ...

In fact, New York City schools have even been called some of the most segregated school districts in the nation, particularly ...

Feb. 27 — In 1869, John Willis Menard rose from his seat in the chamber of the U.S. Congress to defend his status as the ...

Candidates for Alton's contested city council races shared their plans at the Alton Candidate Forum.