Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South, is a major reexamination of the civil rights leader that offers a different picture of both King’s own experiences of police brutality and ...

Adolphus Hailstork's 2022 requiem cantata "A Knee on the Neck" pays tribute to George Floyd. NPR speaks with librettist Herbert Martin, who initiated the work, five years after police killed Floyd in ...

Mayor Ras J. Baraka was arrested May 9 outside an immigrant detention center, though federal prosecutors later decided to ...

Gerald "Mike" Fothergill walked out of Hartford Public High School with hundreds of other students in 1968 to protest the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. That walk got him expelled from school ...

The two Civil Rights leaders had radically opposing but important approaches to the fight for equality, rights and justice ...

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SPRINGFIELD — Peter Banko, Baystate Health‘s president and CEO, has been accused of plagiarizing other writers in a number of ...

The group of Bryan High Bears left the auditorium feeling honored. Some had a newfound enthusiasm for the art of legal ...

The revelation that Pope Leo XIV has Louisiana Creole roots shines a light on a community of Catholics that has shaped New Orleans, from a famous Voodoo priestess to the self-proclaimed inventor of ...

N.J., got into a heated exchange with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., which ended with the lawmaker saying Kennedy's "legitimacy" has expired.

Malcolm X was immortalized in Spike Lee's biographical movie in 1992. The filmmaker told Newsweek why the life and message of ...