ATLANTA — The legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is continuing in Atlanta as the restoration of the building where he had an office during the civil rights movement is complete. When Ed Bowen ...

For 84-year-old Berdell Clayton, Mount Ararat Missionary Baptist Church on N Myrtle Ave is more than a building. Born and ...

Longtime MMA referee "Big" John McCarthy worked his first fight at UFC 2, then helped shape the rules and the officiating of ...

The Congressional Black Caucus and major civil rights groups on Tuesday marked Black History Month by relaunching a national plan to mobilize against what they say are the Trump ...

Black history is part of the real story of America’s diversity, a story that is painful, heroic, and complicated but ...

When the Freedom Riders rolled into Jackson in 1961, Mississippi responded with mass arrests — and the Riders answered with a strategy that reshaped the civil rights movement.

Civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer’s Presidential Medal of Freedom is now on display at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum.

The Trust for Public Land will purchase and restore a Masonic lodge in Atlanta used to plan key moments in the Civil Rights Movement.

Memphis carries a heavy history on its back. Once an important railroad stop, the city flourished economically at the beginning of the 20th century and saw the birth of blues, roc ...

As we celebrate Black History Month, the Warren County NAACP is sharing a series of articles that will continue throughout February.

The Clara Luper National Sit-in Plaza was unveiled late last year. But due to health reasons, this was Calvin Luper's first time seeing it in person.

So when Hubbell was informed that the one-woman performance she’d been engaged to perform must exclude any Black characters, she pushed back. Was the library really telling her, she asked, that as a ...