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" ...

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

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 ...

When I was a young 14-year-old state-wide youth coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in North Carolina in the early 1960s, I witnessed firsthand the effective, transform ...

The Paducah McCracken County NAACP is set to host its largest fundraiser of the year, the annual Freedom Fund Banquet, on ...

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

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

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

Meeting social activist Martin Luther King, Jr. convinced her otherwise — and their fateful encounter happened not a moment ...

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

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

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