“Rosie” was the first feminist I ever knew, if feminism meant sticking up for liberties unfairly denied to women. She grew up ...

I didn’t buy this house to sell for a profit. I wanted to make this my home,” said Ethel R. Lawrence, who fended off ...

The Rosa Parks Committee raised $15,000 to bring her ... She continued to speak and appear in public before she died in Detroit at age 92 on Oct 24, 2005. "She was still out there," Trimble ...

Local author David McGrath pays tribute to his late older sister, who he describes as going toe-to-toe with her brothers — ...

Luther Keith, the civic-minded Detroit native who broke racial barriers over a 30-plus-year career with The Detroit News ...

Hazel Dukes, former president of the NAACP and longtime president of the civil rights organization’s New York chapter, has died. She was 92. She died on March 1 at her home in New York City ...

On Saturday (March 1), longtime civil rights activist Dr. Hazel Nell Dukes died at her home in Harlem ... and one of their neighbors was Rosa Parks, who would become an iconic figure of the ...

Eight Places You Need to Visit and Understand Chicago’s Black Freedom Struggle   Go to Montgomery, Alabama today and markers ...

City Park Jazz, an annual series of free jazz concerts that turns Denver’s marquis green space into the biggest and best ...

She was 49 years old. Love was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2022 and had most recently been receiving treatment as part of ...

Hazel Dukes, a New York City and national civil rights leader died during the early morning ... that she grew up in the same neighborhood as Rosa Parks in Alabama and was deeply influenced by ...