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Martin Luther King Jr.
April 04, 2020
Civil rights hero Lowery honored at private Atlanta funeral
Family of the Rev. Joseph Lowery gathered Saturday for a small, private funeral for the civil rights veteran who worked ...
March 29, 2020
Joseph Lowery, civil rights leader and MLK aide, dies at 98
The Rev. Joseph E. Lowery fought to end segregation, lived to see the election of the country’s first black president and ...
March 20, 2020
The Grand Ole Opry to play on in an empty theater
The Grand Ole Opry, the longest running radio show in history, is playing on through the coronavirus outbreak by returning ...
March 20, 2020
Selma Online offers free civil rights lessons amid virus
The first attempt of the historic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965, led to police violence against peaceful ...
March 09, 2020
Civil rights: The road to Bloody Sunday began 30 miles away
Della Simpson Maynor remembers the mounted police officer cracking her elbow with a baton. She recalls the panicked marchers ...
March 06, 2020
Alabama executes man convicted in killing of 3 officers
A man convicted as an accomplice in the 2004 killings of three police officers in Alabama who were shot by another man was ...
March 02, 2020
Biden warmly welcomed in Selma as Dems court black voters
Joe Biden received a warm reception Sunday in this crucible of the civil rights movement as he and other Democratic ...
March 01, 2020
'He's one of us': Sanders energizing red-state progressives
It isn't easy being a Bernie Sanders supporter in a conservative state like Oklahoma. Travis Wyman, a 40-year-old ...
February 29, 2020
High-tech Chicago exhibit puts visitors eye-to-eye with MLK
Imagine being so close to Martin Luther King Jr. as he gives one of the world's most famous speeches that you notice the ...
February 28, 2020
Fight by 2 Republicans for Georgia Senate seat unnerves GOP
A Republican congressman's decision to challenge freshly appointed Sen. Kelly Loeffler is pitting two visions of the GOP's ...
February 28, 2020
Website aims to highlight hidden figures in black history
A few years back, Matthew Delmont felt his teaching about African American history had gotten a little stale so he starting ...
February 27, 2020
Sanders pitches black voters on ideas and history, not faith
When black voters in South Carolina consider Bernie Sanders, they don't tend to think of him as the potential first Jewish ...
February 27, 2020
The Latest: Biden not worried about Trump refusing to leave
The Latest on the Democratic presidential primary contest (all times local): 9:05 p.m. Democratic presidential candidate Joe ...
February 21, 2020
OWN's 'Cherish the Day' is a rare celebration of black love
To separate filmmaker and TV producer Ava DuVernay’s trenchant, history-driven projects, including “Selma” and “When They See ...
February 18, 2020
Pete Buttigieg's next test: Winning over minority voters
So far, Pete Buttigieg has made it look easy. The once little-known former mayor of a midsize Midwestern city vaulted over ...
February 17, 2020
The Latest: Nevada's lieutenant governor endorses Biden
The Latest on the 2020 presidential campaign (all times PST): 3:30 p.m. Joe Biden has picked up another endorsement from a ...
February 14, 2020
Limbaugh draws bipartisan criticism for Buttigieg remarks
Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh drew bipartisan criticism Thursday for saying the country won't elect Pete ...
February 12, 2020
Inside Michael Bloomberg's big play for black voters
A meeting with nearly 80 black pastors in Detroit. A speech before a black Democratic organization in Montgomery. A rally at ...
February 09, 2020
Biden faces competition for black vote in his SC 'firewall'
Joe Biden is facing increasingly formidable competition in South Carolina, a state his campaign has long assumed was safely ...
February 05, 2020
California pardons gay civil rights leader in new initiative
A civil rights leader who was gay and a confidant of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was posthumously pardoned by California Gov.
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