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HomePolitics Watch Radio and VideoRadio Interviews Law professor and civil rights activist Geeta N. Kapur talks about systemic…

ExplorePHOTOS: Atlanta event honors Vernon Jordan legacy"It's emotional, but it's also an opportunity to celebrate," said Vickee, noting that St. Paul AME Church "has always been a home for us."The commemoration on Saturday was planned as a…

Many residents of eastern Prince William County knew Al Brooks personally; but even if they didn't, he was probably a familiar face. Brooks was known as the tall, older African American gentleman who…

Civil rights activist and environmental activist Ruth Anderson Wilson has died at the age of 98. In 1966, The Press-Enterprise portrayed Wilson under the heading "Stepping Back - Here Comes a Hurricane". For decades she fought for the…

Dorothy Louise Hill Gardner, an activist and educator, died on Monday June 14, 2021. Gardner was 90 years old.She was the matriarch of her large extended family and a mentor and supporter of many aspirants,…

Since moving to Nashville in 1967, longtime activist Walter Searcy has seen a cycle here in Nashville: a policeman kills someone. There are calls for reform. And hardly anything changes. He hopes the plea deal doesn't continue that…

Utah civil rights activist Bettye Gillespie died on Friday, July 2, 2021, at the age of 92 after a long…

An abstract sculpture in honor of journalist and civil rights activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett, created by sculptor Richard Hunt, will be on S. Langley Ave. at sunset on Wednesday, June 30, 2021. seen in…

The city of Cincinnati, Ohio unveiled a statue of civil rights activist Marian Spencer the day before her 101st birthday.Unveiled at John G. & Phyllis W. Smale Riverfront Park on June 27, the life-size sculpture is the first…

Ann Robb Smith, 93, an episcopal priestess who lived her faith by serving some of Philadelphia's most needy residents, died June 6 at her home in northeast Maine of complications from Alzheimer's disease."She had the courage to follow her…