While working on the lower register of her voice with New York City singer Paul Reese, who first turned her toward folk music. By the 1930s and ’40s, the genre was driven by Peter Seeger and the ...

As the world commemorates the 60th anniversary of the seminal events at Selma a fascinating new study has cast fresh light on ...

Gray recalled the last time he spoke to longtime friend U.S. Rep. John Lewis about a week before Lewis' death. Lewis was ...

As retailers like Target and Amazon announce plans to scale back or cut DEI programs in their businesses, Black customers are ...

The civil rights era comes alive in these excellent, informative books for kids of all ages. From beautifully illustrated picture books to memoirs that depict the Jim Crow South to biographies of ...

The 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday was commemorated on March 7. On that day in 1965, civil rights marchers, led by ...

Voting rights remain under attack, and voting rights protections, including those created in the 1965 Voting Rights Act, have ...

Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux was a renowned Black preacher and broadcaster. Radio Diaries' series "Making Waves" looks at his life and his contentious relationship with Martin Luther King Jr.

Journal Downtown Selma on March 6, 1965 was a typically busy Saturday, so shoppers didn’t pay much attention to a group of ...

The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund is awarding $8.5 million in grants to 30 historically Black Churches as a part of its third annual ...

Reflecting on the 60th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery march, highlighting the ongoing struggle for civil rights and ...

How the brutal treatment of Black citizens in Selma, Alabama in 1965 led to the creation of the Voting Rights Act, a pivotal ...