Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South, is a major reexamination of the civil rights leader that offers a different picture of both King’s own experiences of police brutality and ...

Adolphus Hailstork's 2022 requiem cantata "A Knee on the Neck" pays tribute to George Floyd. NPR speaks with librettist Herbert Martin, who initiated the work, five years after police killed Floyd in ...

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George Lucas, the man, the myth, the legend, has created some of the most enduring franchises, characters and video games the ...

The latest work by author and historian Peniel Joseph centers on the events of 1963 but also explores how “part of that era echoes our own.” ...

Previous winners include former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, baseball star Cal Ripken Jr. and singer-songwriter ... marches across Alabama led by King. But at an advance screening ...

Two months ago, King Abdullah II of Jordan pledged to take in 2,000 sick Palestinian children from Gaza, but Kennedy… RFK Jr. says Jordan’s king ‘cut us off’ on 2,000 Gaza children pledge ...

From Harlem to haute couture, explore the legacy and evolution of Black dandyism through fashion, literature, and the Met Gala’s revolutionary new theme, “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.” ...

GARY, Ind. (WISH) — On April 22, 1959, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. visited Gary, Indiana, to accept the key to the city. Sixty-five years later, his daughter, Dr ...

Virginia, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner was released starring an all-star cast that included Sidney Poitier as ... after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., 1968's Uptight gets right ...