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Written by Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963, join the WVTM 13 team to explore how the letter came to be a signature document of ...
In April 1965, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a march from Carter Playground on the edge of Roxbury to Boston Common. It was ...
A newly discovered note from CT’s first editor, Carl Henry, shows how King’s Birmingham Jail missive shifted a white pastor’s ...
While most know that Robinson was the first Black player in the MLB, few are aware of his courageous efforts off the field.
Civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton calls on Black America to boycott PepsiCo for abandoning DEI initiatives. He urges Black consumers to use their purchasing power as a tool for protest.
Dr. Cornel West will be the keynote speaker for commencement ceremony at Morehouse College, where he will also receive an ...
In May 1943, floodwaters submerged the Russell Miller Milling Co. in Alton, with efforts to pump out the water underway.
On April 16, 2007, Seung-hui Cho, a 23-year-old Virginia Tech student, killed 32 people on the Virginia Tech campus before taking his own life. It remains the deadliest school history in US history.
April 30 marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. During a long period of protest before 1975, several local governments, including Berkeley and Oakland, passed resolutions ...
Aja Martinez and Robert Smith say in a new book that the roots of CRT show that the academic discipline is uniquely American ...
Man, it was difficult to narrow this list down. There were a thousand musicians who stepped up and made statements musically ...
The documentary ‘Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)’ explores the meteoric rise and dramatic fall of Sly & The ...