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Note: Lifestyle Editor Ken Abrams prepared this piece at the Newport Jazz Festival in 2015. We're releasing an edited version again today as the 2021 festival comes to an end.Daily headlines remind us that the nation…

By Hasan Kwame JeffriesAs the organizer of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s, Bob Moses traveled to the most dangerous parts of Mississippi to help African Americans end…

By David Mark GreavesSimone BilesWhat a class act champ Simone Biles is. She made her jump and then went with a thoughtful look to her coaches and then to her teammates. She hugs them all and we hear them say, “I love you. This…

President Joe Biden makes remarks at an Independence Day celebration in Washington, DC July 4, 2021 at the White House. (Evelyn Hockstein / Reuters) Yesterday, President Biden announced that all…

Last year our nation lost civil rights activists John Lewis, CT Vivian, Bruce Boynton, Joseph Lowery, and most recently Bob Moses. These are just a few of the legion of courageous personalities who advocated the right and the risk decades…

EXCLUSIVE: The Summer of Activism is underway with marches, protests and demonstrations similar to those of the 1960s as a blueprint to get Republicans to implement the For The People and John Lewis Voting Rights Acts.Reverend Jesse…

Orleans Parish prosecutors have resolved a longstanding federal civil rights lawsuit over New Orleans prosecutors' use of fake subpoenas - along with other hardball tactics under former prosecutor Leon…

JACKSON, miss. (WLBT) - He is known as a civil rights activist.Hollis Watkins Muhammad played an instrumental role in the struggle for equal rights in the isolated south.Dozens of people honored him during a freedom ceremony on Friday.…

Jackson State University's Office of Community Engagement unveiled its new Council of Federated Organizations mural entitled "Chain Breakers" on Saturday,…