Special guest Mzuri Moyo Aimbaye will perform an excerpt from her award-winning show, “The Fannie Lou Hamer Story.” The 2025 winners of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. essay-writing contest ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Born in 1929 in Atlanta ... rights leader Malcolm X at an outdoor rally, in New York City. Fannie Lou Hamer was a Mississippi sharecropper turned fierce voting rights ...

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During an interview with WLBT News, Mayor Lumumba discussed how he views himself as “kind of conservative at heart,” his well ...

Sometimes, celebration is a form of resistance. And so we gathered Saturday at Fifth Baptist Church for the 5th Annual MLK Memorial Luncheon by Living the Dream Inc. I was blessed to be one of ...

There's always what we say, and what we mean, and a gap between the two; what we mean to do, and what we really do, and a gap ...

Discover 21 influential Black leaders who changed history through activism, politics, education, science and justice.

What has not been generally covered are the feelings of let down and betrayal that lingers in the Black community as a result of the aftermath of the 2024 Presidential elections. These feelings have ...

On Jan. 15, the Forum on Black Affairs (FOBA) celebrated Rev. Martin Luther King’s birthday with ... the College of Liberal Arts, presented Fannie Lou Hamer-W.E.B. DuBois Service Scholarships ...

And not the sanitized just-so version of the Black experience in which America skips from slavery, Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass to civil rights, Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa ... Build a ...

When Martin Luther King visited the state recently in support ... satisfaction of seeing a Mississippi Negro woman like Fannie Lou Hamer emerge as a leader, or that meeting in Canton yesterday.

And not the sanitized just-so version of the Black experience in which America skips from slavery, Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass to civil rights, Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks and ...