Editor Brian Harrod Provides Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, with aggregated news from sources all over the world from the Roundup Newswires Network
Carter G. Woodson in an undated photograph. Woodson is a founder of the Association for the Study of African American History, who first came up with the idea of the celebration that became Black History Month.
Black History Month 2017 observances around the United States are likely to note the end of the first African American president's term and the opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Black History Month, which begins Wednesday, Feb. 1, is observed annually in several countries.
California elected officials are leading a courtroom charge to bulldoze the 1958 NAACP v. Alabama Supreme Court decision that guarantees anonymity for non-profit donors who might otherwise be subjected to death threats and other forms of intimidation.
Al Sharpton, a Baptist minister and prominent civil rights activist , was the guest speaker Sunday night at Oakwood University Church. Reverend Al Sharpton's visit to Oakwood University Seventh Day Adventist Church on Sunday was part of their church's kickoff for Black History Month.
As a black man from Alabama, Willie Huntley Jr. has deep reverence for civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis, an organizer of the landmark marches from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. So Huntley got a little emotional earlier this month when he found himself in the same Senate hearing room as Lewis.
Chrisette Michele, one of Donald Trump 's most controversial inauguration performers, has expressed her disappointment at not actually meeting the US President at the event. The Grammy-winning R&B and soul singer sang at the Make America Great Again! Welcome Celebration concert that took place last week , a day before Trump's inauguration.
The streets of Washington looked vastly different the day after Donald J. Trump's inauguration than they did the day-of. Instead of the largely white crowds that lined Pennsylvania Avenue on Inauguration Day, people of all colors, classes and ages filled the streets for what's being called the most diverse march for women's rights ever.
The This Old House Hour Burying electrical cables, building porch columns, laying a patio, installing kitchen cabinets and trimming the front gable. On ASK THIS OLD HOUSE, changing a dilapidated entrance, how to make wire connections and a lesson on creating mead.
Donald Trump is set to appoint a Cabinet with no Latino members for the first time in 30 years . Trump's Cabinet also has the fewest non-white and female members in decades.
With the establishment of the period when the nation would celebrate the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, no one could have anticipated the possibility that one day that period would converge with the date when a "first black president" would be turning over executive power after serving two terms. But in just a few days Barack Hussein Obama will conclude an ironic but historic chapter in the ongoing story of this strange and dangerous place called the United States of America.
My to-do list today included tracking down eighteenth-century primary sources in French for some of my ambitious Francophone students. So, obviously, I decided to see what if anything French press had on Martin Luther King .
In this Aug. 28, 1963, file photo, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, addresses marchers during his "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. As civil rights leaders and activists gather Monday, Jan. 16, 2017, at sites across the country to celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., the slain civil rights leader's daughter Bernice King is encouraging Americans to fight for his vision of love and justice "no matter who is in the White House."
Local activists participated in Lake Worth's 23rd annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. candlelight march Monday evening. Every year, various community organizations, churches and school groups come together for the march to commemorate MLK's good works.
Donald Trump met Monday with Martin Luther King III, who said he used his time with the president-elect to discuss strategies to fix the U.S.'s "broken voting system." The oldest son of the civil rights leader trekked to Trump Tower amid growing tensions between the incoming president and African Americans over Trump's weekend twitter attack on another civil rights icon, Georgia Congressman John Lewis.
Vice President-elect Mike Pence will take the oath of office with a Bible once used by conservative hero and former President Ronald Reagan, the inaugural committee for President-elect Trump announced. Pence's oath will be administered by Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas on the steps of the U.S. Capitol immediately after Trump is sworn into office by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to become the 45th president of the United States.
Thousands rallied in Washington Saturday less than a week before President-elect Donald Trump takes office to make clear their opposition to his policies on immigration and social justice. The demonstrations came at two separate events.
President Barack Obama waves as he arrives to give his presidential farewell address at McCormick Place in Chicago, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017. President Barack Obama waves as he arrives to give his presidential farewell address at McCormick Place in Chicago, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017.
Sen. Jeff Sessions said Tuesday he has been unfairly criticized for indicting three African-Americans for voting fraud in 1985 in Mobile, Ala., while he was U.S. attorney there, because the complainants in the case were also African-American - a fact that is often overlooked although "it's been out there a long time." "It's been out there for a long time," said Sessions.
Members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People say they won't stand for Senator Jeff Sessions being confirmed as the United States Attorney General. Several leaders held news conferences in major Alabama cities to voice there concerns.
The NAACP is staging a sit-in at the Alabama office of U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions to protest his nomination to be the nation's next attorney general. NAACP President Cornell William Brooks said in a statement that Sessions "can't be trusted to be the chief law enforcement officer for voting rights."