Some people serve their communities by sitting on boards. Others do it by organizing events, mentoring young people or ...

A new $300,000 Malcolm X monument was unveiled at the Michael Busch Library in Annapolis, honoring his legacy of civil rights ...

The Rock Island NAACP hosted a candidate forum, giving voters a chance to hear where those running for office stand on the ...

Before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in August 1963, Mahalia Jackson sang. She had traveled an improbable distance to reach the Lincoln Memorial.

Springfield College professor Martin Dobrow said events are "one of the great under-told stories of American civil rights." ...