JAMES MEREDITH: Shot and suffered major wounds during his 1966 march from Memphis, Tenn. to Jackson, Miss., later completed as the March Against Fear, now …
VIOLA FORD FLETCHER: She has been living prayerfully since a white mob’s 1921 race massacre that she witnessed at age seven laid waste to her …
WASHINGTON (Black PR Wire) – This August, Martin Luther King, III, Arndrea Waters King, and the Rev. Al Sharpton, with fellow Civil Rights Movement veterans …
DIGGING INTO THE PAST: According to community lore, many as 300 souls, including enslaved people and their descendants, are buried at St. Mary of the …
MOTHER MARY ELIZABETH LANGE: Among three Black nuns from the U.S. designated by Catholic officials as worthy of consideration for sainthood, including Henriette Delille and …
COSTS HAVING IMPACT: Demand to carry out Islam’s spiritual trip of a lifetime usually outstrips the supply of pilgrimage spots many times over. PHOTO COURTESY …
This year’s Hajj is a landmark: the first full pilgrimage after three years when the COVID-19 pandemic sharply reduced the scale of one of Islam’s …
MYRLIE EVERS-WILLIAMS: At ceremonial opening of the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument, she has been a civil rights activist in her own right. …
MARIJUANA: Celebrating in Antigua and Barbuda, practice brings them closer to the divine. STOCK PHOTO LIBERTA, Antigua (AP) – On the same ground where their …
POLITICAL CALCULATIONS ASIDE: Bernice King said her grandfather and Carter shared "real kinship" as two Baptists raised in small-town Georgia. PHOTO COURTESY OF BRIDGEMANIMAGES.COM ATLANTA …
