Category: LEAD STORY

THE CONVERSATION April 2, 2018 6.44 a.m. EDT On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, while fighting for a 10-cent wage increase for garbage workers.

The Conversation January 11, 2018 4.17pm EST After this last tumultuous year of political rancor and racial animus, many people could well be asking what can sustain them over the next

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — As a girl in Kansas, Linda Brown’s father tried to enroll her in an all-white school in Topeka. He and several black families were

(AP) – A judge has dismissed with prejudice a lawsuit filed by the father of a Muslim boy arrested after taking a homemade clock to his Dallas-area school.

By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Three icons of their respective industries were honored at the National Newspaper Publishers Association’s annual Torch Awards dinner at The Dupont

(AP) – A man suspected of being the bomber behind a series of explosions across central Texas blew himself up in a vehicle as a swat team approached,

By Dr. J. Ester Davis The 41st in the Black Heritage Series, @USPS.com, this forever stamp honors the achievements of legendary performer and civil rights activist, Lena Horne,

LOXLEY, Ala. (AP) — One minute members of the Texas high school band were sleeping soundly on an early morning bus trip home from a much-anticipated trip to

Mrs. Ruth Mims Holly was born March 4, 1917, in the Yard community of Tennessee Colony, Texas (Anderson County). Her parents were Dennis and Pearl Casel Mims. Ruth