Maryland Gov. Wes Moore's mother told him that patience sometimes is a virtue, and sometimes it is a detriment. When it comes ...

Fight For Freedom Fund Dinner comes at a uniquely challenging time for the United States, the organization's president says.

Now in its West Coast premiere at Greenway Court Theatre, Greenwood 1964 brings to life a very specific moment in civil ...

Juneteenth marks the jubilant day in 1865 when many of the more than 250,000 people who were enslaved in Texas finally learned they were legally free. This deliberately delayed news was delivered by ...

On June 19, across the United States, Juneteenth was once again celebrated mdash;not merely as a federal holiday, but as a ...

Learn about the history behind Juneteenth National Independence Day, a federal holiday that honors the end of slavery in the ...

A recent Columbia resident shares some family history, and a celebration committee member shares why Juneteenth is important.

Dr. Leslie McLemore, civil rights activist, close friend of Fannie Lou Hamer, and former MHC board chair, who will share rare and personal stories that bring Hamer’s legacy vividly to life.

Pastor Jamal Bryant leads Target boycott movement, discusses Black economic power, fasting principles, and building ...

Then Fannie Lou Hamer gave her own hair-raising account in exacting detail of how she and other black Mississippians seeking the right to vote were extorted, threatened, ... or the halls of this ...

The government’s secret files on the assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. could be released ahead of schedule after a federal judge in Washington indicated he was open to ...

Tens of thousands of Philadelphia children get free books via the Philly Book Bank, a nonprofit that has operated out of Martin Luther King High for more than two decades. Now, the Philadelphia ...