The Friendship Nine changed the civil rights movement in 1961 by choosing prison rather than paying a fine for a sit-in at a ...

COFO. It stands for the Council of Federated Organizations and while many of you have never heard of it, COFO is an organization born in Mississippi, that was a crucial piece of the civil rights ...

Round” tells the historic story of the first organized interracial civil rights protest in U.S. history, highlighting the ...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN. Now the home of ...

The East Rosedale Monument Project in near-south Fort Worth has turned an ordinary bus stop into a work of art and a lesson ...

As time inevitably passes, we must remember that speeches of this magnitude were not given in a vacuum—they were calls to ...

Black History Month reminds us that it's an appropriate time to reflect on our nation's relentless struggles for freedom, especially those courageous people whose heroic efforts advanced the cause of ...

David Fankhauser ‘71 is an Hopkins alumnus, who graduated with a PhD in Molecular Biology and worked as a Professor of ...

From Hattiesburg to Jackson and beyond, experience monumental Civil Rights sites along the Mississippi Freedom Trail!

N’Game Gray, founder of the NuBridges Youth Collective, a local nonprofit that works with transitional-age youth and a co-sponsor of the event, said organizers wanted to bring Preacely to Santa Rosa ...

Metropolitan A.M.E. Church in Washington, D.C., won a $2.8 million judgment against hate group for damaging church property ...

February is Black History Month, an appropriate time for celebrating the struggles, triumphs and contributions of this nation’s African American citizens. Born in February were President Abraham ...