NBA Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar spoke to graduating students at Harvard University on May 28, telling the new graduates ...

As the president wages a war on DEI and threatens to roll back other civil rights efforts, the King family is continuing the ...

You have done a marvelous job of grasping the underlying truth and philosophy of the movement,’ the Rev. Martin Luther King ...

THIRTY years before Guyana achieved independence from British colonial rule, Jamaican political activist, Marcus Garvey, issued a powerful call that still ...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Sunday posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey ... The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. said of Garvey: “He was the first man, on a mass scale ...

“We want freedom, by any means necessary. We want justice, by any means necessary. We want equality by any means necessary.

Malcolm X was immortalized in Spike Lee's biographical movie in 1992. The filmmaker told Newsweek why the life and message of ...

Molefi Kete Asante, professor and chair of the Africology and African American studies department at Temple University in Philadelphia, describes Marcus ... Martin Luther King Jr. described Garvey ...

Mwatabu Okantah was at Kent State when Black History Month was first celebrated. He reflects on the groundwork laid and why it still matters.

Using the power of DNA, AfricanAncestry.com has traced the lineage of civil rights icons Marcus Garvey and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. back to their native African tribes. It turns out King and ...

Marcus Garvey was born on Aug. 17 ... his speeches advocating Black pride were electrifying. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once said Garvey “was the first man of color in the history of ...

He inspired other major civil rights figures including Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr ... Garvey, 91, told Newsweek. "All of the independent countries in the Caribbean took from Marcus ...