Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story” continues to be a nonviolence teaching tool and an influential historical account in the United States and worldwide. The 16-page comic book ...

Standing beside leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and Frederick Douglass were white folks like legendary singer Frank Sinatra who used their voices and privilege to protests the ...

Springfield, Illinois is hosting a variety of Juneteenth events from June 12-19, including a pageant, panel discussions, and ...

Among the less recognizable buildings slated for potential sale were several bearing the names of civil rights leaders, ...

Jim Crow laws, upheld by the Supreme Court in 1896 in Plessy v. Ferguson, made it perfectly legal to discriminate against a person based on the color of their skin. Into the 1960s, a Black or Latino ...

Lincoln Land Community College will host the third annual Freedom Walk at 8:30 a.m. The self-guided walk around the ...

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum's special events for Juneteenth will include the display of a signed copy ...

Free tickets are available at go.uis.edu/Juneteenth. • “The Nature of Freedom,” a readers theater presentation featuring the ...

Four short years after the recognition of a holiday commemorating freedom, it feels like Black people are less free.

Tez'Ziah Ransford marks her graduation with a walk across the stage and awards for math, music, socioemotional learning, and ...

The honors bestowed upon Blake in his later years were many and well deserved, including having his name on a park and a ...