Legacy

One of the great legacies of North Carolina and our nation's history was the explosion of the American civil rights movement. As the leader of this movement, Martin Luther King Jr. repeatedly appealed to our strengths as a nation: the…

LANCASTER - It's not difficult to say that Alice Saunders was the matriarch of the local civil rights movement.The co-founder of the Black Interest Group and civil rights activist since the 1950s, died of natural causes on May 1 at the age…

Ramsey Clark, the former US attorney general who drafted the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and played a key role in the civil rights movement, was the most principled person I have ever known. His death on April 9 at the age of 93 comes at a…

MLB pays tribute to Hank Aaron's civil rights legacy with the move of the Georgia All-Star Game | Will Bunch The Philadelphia Inquirer

MONTGOMERY, Alabama - Mehr als 800 Stahlblöcke hängen von der Decke, einer für jeden Ort in den USA, an dem gelyncht wurde. Sie drehen sich in alphabetischer Reihenfolge nach Bundesstaat Alabama durch Virginia.Ich mache eine Pause, als ich…

Above photo: Danielle Brooks Stars as gospel icon Mahalia Jackson in the new biography "Mahalia".By J'na Jeffersonwww.mylifetime.comWho of us was not touched by Mahalia Jackson's music? Though you may not realize it, the…

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RENO, Nevada (KOLO) - Dolores Feemster may have lost her second battle with breast cancer in 2018, but her legacy lives on in northern Nevada."It didn't have many things, but it made a lot of difference."Woman, mother, mentor, community…

Sarah Moore Greene was one of the most influential civil rights activists and community leaders in Knoxville. A career educator, she touched hundreds of lives directly through her teaching and later still as a civil rights activist,…