Jeffrey Benson, a graduate of Sacramento State's College of Education, earned the university's President Medal.

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A leader in public safety in Maryland, Stuart O. “Stu” Simms has served as a state Cabinet secretary, Baltimore City state’s ...

A new opera tells the story of the Black women who organized in Alabama leading up to the Montgomery bus boycott.

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Kadarius Smith would have been an 18-year-old senior at Leland High School getting his diploma. Instead, Smith's mother ...

The far-left civil rights organization Southern Poverty Law Center has added the conservative Evangelical parachurch ministry ...

Adriana Smith was 8 weeks pregnant when she was rushed to the hospital after experiencing severe headaches and breathing problems that were later diagnosed as the result of blood clots in her brain.

These women have largely been forgotten, until now. The lesser-known figures who powered the Civil Rights Movement are the subject of a brand-new opera, set to make its world premiere next week in ...