Black history happens every day, and the stories from NPR listeners are good examples of that. From becoming the first Black ...

Let’s reminisce on the asphalt courts where the dribbling of a basketball was the heartbeat of the North Omaha community.

The civil rights leader gave furious clarity to black anger in the 1960s, but like several of his contemporaries met with a ...

A dilemma Malcolm faced was thus that those whom he and his mentor Elijah Muhammad, among others, were struggling to protect ...

It has been 60 years since Malcolm X was assassinated in NYC, and his family is calling for the documents in the case to be ...

For some historians who specialize in Malcolm X, it's a sign of a mainstream effort to dismiss complicated a nuanced civil ...

It has been 60 years since Malcolm X was assassinated in NYC, and his family is calling for the documents in the case to be ...

Born in 1929 in Atlanta, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would go on to become the voice of the movement. In 1955, he served as the spokesman for the Montgomery bus boycott. In 1957, he was elected the ...

the son of the legendary slain civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr., talked to PEOPLE about what it was like spending the first 10 years of his life living in the same house as the man who ...

And those words were never more true than in June 1958 when the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. came to town. King was in town to attend the National Sunday School and Baptist Training Union Congress.

The Pentagon's intelligence arm has issued a memo pausing any activities related to Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Juneteenth ... the memo were first posted on X by independent journalist Ken ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Defense Department’s intelligence agency has paused observances of Martin Luther King Jr. Day ... Ken Klippenstein and posted to X. Federal agencies have struggled ...