Kraken anthem singer Tommie Burton lives a life full of a lot of different notes, including the celebration of his mother, ...

For Charles Person and Thomas Gaither, 1961 was an eventful year in their young lives. Person was 18 and became the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, and Gaither was 22 when he introduced the ...

In this Monday, May 2, 2016, file photo, the Massachusetts state flag flies in front of Boston City Hall. The commission put together to study the racial implications of the Massachusetts state seal ...

A discovered connection to Carter G. Woodson, pioneer of Black history, made the author's relationship to Judaism all the ...

The movement that he led ultimately spurred passage of landmark civil rights and voting rights legislation ... crisis if he were alive today.” Mother Jones was founded to do journalism differently.

Under Doris Bland’s leadership, MAW reframed welfare as a right rather than a privilege, emphasizing the dignity and agency ...

A historical monument commemorating the last school for Native Americans in South Carolina prior to public school integration ...

For the 10 years that she served her nation as its foremost diplomat, Dr Gaositwe Keagakwa Tibe Chiepe defended human dignity ...

Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter ... anti-entitlement ideas amid a backlash to the civil rights movement, notes Vanessa Williamson, a senior fellow in ...

A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...