Martin Luther King Jr. played a major role in keeping Nichelle Nichols on Star Trek, despite facing racism and wanting to ...

Bernice King referenced her father’s observation, “We must learn to live together as brothers or will all perish together as ...

The theme was "The Fierce Urgency of Now," a reference to a quote by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in his "I Have a Dream" ...

Someone at the University of Louisville is discouraging student groups bearing Martin Luther King, Jr.'s name from speaking ...

Stanley Lawson Sr., who led the Greater Harrisburg Area NAACP for more than a decade, died Tuesday surrounded by family at ...

The fight for American civil rights spanned decades, cities and states, from Topeka, Kansas to Memphis, Tennessee and from ...

I have had the absolute pleasure and honor to be a speaker for the Young America's Foundation (YAF), addressing college ...

Missouri’s new congressional map shifts 70,000 minority residents out of Kansas City’s 5th District, prompting accusations of ...

Scales graduated in 1969 and had a two-year stint with the U.S. Army. He served as a clerk typist at Fort Hood, Texas. While ...

Longtime Geneva NAACP president Lucile Mallard will be sworn in as a new trustee of Finger Lakes Community College on Nov. 5. Gov. Kathy Hochul appointed Mallard to the 10-member board, which helps ...

Knowing and under-standing history is important. Learning from history ensures that it repeating the past is not inevitable.

The Nov. 1 dedication will celebrate the completion of the 4-ton bronze monument to the 1958 Katz Drug Store sit-ins in ...