“Filling in the Gaps as We Learn Black History ” was the title of the program held at Mount Olive AME Church, located adjacent to the Cotton Club Museum and Cultural Center in the Springhill ...

March 7, 1965 -- approximately 600 peaceful demonstrators approached the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. They had begun their proce ...

Trayvon Martin's mother: "I chose to live" Two and a half years before Ferguson, the shooting death of Trayvon Martin was a call to action for many people. The unarmed 17-year-old ...