Black History Month is about moral memory. It is about remembering not only what happened, but how change happened and who ...

Before accepting the Hooks National Book Award at the University of Memphis on Feb. 13, journalist and author Joy-Ann Reid reflected on why she chose to tell the story of Medgar and Myrlie Evers not ...

We keep likening it to Nazi Germany, this idea of being told not to believe what we can clearly see. We quote George Orwell.

The 71st Detroit NAACP Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner season officially began Feb. 12 with the organization’s annual kickoff reception at the Roostertail, marking the NAACP’s 117th anniversary year as ...

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

At this marvelous hard-won age, the days of jumping and dancing with the paintings are over. But I don't feel limited,” says the artist, educator, and Civil Rights luminary.

Movements are not born fully formed – they begin when ordinary people decide to act ...

The Black Excellence Dinner grew in its fourth year and celebrated multiple students, staff and faculty for their contributions to service and their community.

The recent arson that destroyed Beth Israel, Jackson, Miss.'s only synagogue, recalls that state's dark history of violence toward those supporting racial equality — one stretching back more than 60 ...

In the midst of ongoing, global injustice, activist Angela Davis spoke about how Birmingham emboldened her fight for collective freedom during a lecture series at a Mississippi HBCU.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. turned his focus to Chicago 60 years ago this month. The Nobel Peace Prize winner came to the city at the request of Al Raby ...

In 1965, three months after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. declared from the steps of the state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, that the aim of the civil rights movement was no more and no less than ...