The Pacers are getting ready to play in the NBA finals for the first time in 25 years. But for the community, it's what the team does off the court that makes it special.

In about 11 days, organizers are expecting even larger crowds at a Saturday, June 14 event called No Kings — a protest meant ...

Ivan Dixon's "The Spook Who Sat by the Door" in 35mm, Sofia Coppola and Kirsten Dunst with "The Virgin Suicides" and a ...

Hundreds of people got the message. Jihan and her husband, Masood Abdul-Haqq, organized the first "XFest OKC" on the city's ...

Lincoln Depot Museum In March of 1863, amidst the American Civil War, Frederick Douglass announced, “The day dawns; the morning star is bright upon the horizon! The iron gate […] ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - Graduation day marks the end of one chapter and the beginning of another, and for hundreds of Fayette County Public Schools seniors, Thursday was a day to celebrate four years ...

Ulysses Kay, a prolific composer, was honored by Teaneck with the renaming of Alicia Avenue where he lived from 1974 to 1995.

The Houston-based Apollo Chamber Players has announced their upcoming 18th season, American Story, a series of four themed ...

Maine artist Robert Shetterly said the late Albany civil rights leader epitomized his two-decade portrait project, “Americans ...

One of the earliest Memorial Day observances occurred on May 1, 1865. Organized by freed slaves and white missionaries.

Memorial Day is supposed to be about mourning the nation's fallen service members, but it's come to anchor the unofficial ...

B Special to the AFRO Few attorneys are as closely tied to America’s civil rights struggles as Benjamin Crump. Known for representing families in high-profile wrongful death cases, Crump has become a ...