Nedra Pickler, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — For President Barack Obama, it’s a week to invoke America’s civil rights struggles from past to present. The...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has voted to award the Congressional Gold Medal to honor those who participated in the historic Selma civil rights protest...
By Kim M. Keenan NNPA Columnist Selma. For those of a certain age, the word Selma is evocative of a time when people stood...
By Kim M. Keenan NNPA Columnist Selma. For those of a certain age, the word Selma is evocative of a time when people stood...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A very public conflict between the Bridge Crossing Jubilee, Inc., the local group that has been commemorating...
By Rev. Amos C. Brown NNPA Guest Columnist As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the historic march from Selma to Montgomery, we must...
(CBS News) – The director of the new movie celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr. and civil rights tells Bob Simon that filming it on a...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Although Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and John Lewis captured the headlines, it was the death of 26-year-old Jimmie...
Dear President Obama: We love you. We respect you. We support you. We strongly supported your becoming President and have continued to support you through...
(Los Angeles Times) – The role of art in our society is not to reenact history but to offer an interpretation of human experience as seen...
ALEX SANZ, Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Forty-nine years after John Lewis and fellow marchers tried to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, the...
ALEX SANZ, Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Forty-nine years after John Lewis and fellow marchers tried to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, the...