DALLAS — Dallas minister Frederick Haynes III was attending a civil rights summit in Montgomery, Ala., when he learned of a ...

Black History Month is celebrated every February, the shortest and one of the coldest months of the year.

Former WDSU-TV anchor Jonah Gilmore will serve as New Orleans Mayor Helena Moreno's press secretary, the mayor announced in a ...

King spoke to human flourishing: how people are educated, how communities sustain themselves, how faith shapes courage, how ...

Civil rights were never a demand—they were an insistence on equal protection under law. But for King, civil rights were not an endpoint; they were the foundation of a moral vision encompassing ...

After buying his own liberty, the Marylander covertly assisted conductors on the Underground Railroad, including Harriet ...

He puts on his frock coat, straightens the gold chain of the pocket watch tucked into his suit vest and morphs into character, becoming a living embodiment of the American abolitionist Frederick ...

Every morning, before students walk through the doors of Frederick A. Douglass High School, assistant principal JaMarcus Welch leads staff through a recital of the “Bobcat identity.” “Bobcats are the ...

What we learn by tracing rebellions from Africa to the Americas ...