The community event, on June 14, includes the history of Juneteenth, food, youth activities, music and a variety of cultural ...

The family of Martin Luther King Jr. protested President Donald Trump's ... in retaliation for his support of Israel following the 1967 Six-Day War. He died 25 hours later.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a U.S. holiday and national day of service. It took a long time for the country to get there It was first proposed four days after King's 1968 assassination outside a ...

Jackie Robinson did more than break Major League Baseball’s color barrier. The Hall of Famer was also a journalist, bank ...

While most know that Robinson was the first Black player in the MLB, few are aware of his courageous efforts off the field.

and many there that day knew the final speaker as an activist who had led groundbreaking civil rights protests in the heart of Dixie. But the world would soon know Martin Luther King, Jr., as the ...

Hotel magnate Conrad Hilton fulfilled his dream to purchase the Waldorf-Astoria in 1949. He called the luxury hotel on Park ...

Six days earlier, at Ebbets Field, Jackie Robinson had worn the home whites of his Brooklyn Dodgers and doubled and scored ...

On the evening of March 25, 1965, Viola Liuzzo, the 39-year-old mother of five children, was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan ...

As he wrote in his memoirs about his New York visit, "The world that day seemed to me a pretty ... flophouse and fired at the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who was standing outside his room ...