When Ephriam David Tyler died in 1969 at age 85, he had written and published his way through three works of poetry that ...

The East Rosedale Monument Project creates a history stop, where visitors can learn about the fight to end racial segregation ...

Former Vice President Kamala Harris is to receive the NAACP’s Chairman’s Award during the civil rights organization’s Image ...

The performance of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" by Ledisi and a chorus of New Orleans students stirred audiences. It also ...

BURBANK, Wash. - A music documentary exploring the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival will be screened at the Burbank Library, ...

Just like in the 1960s, many of the civil rights activists were met with crushing ... So for instance, William Burroughs tried to fuse film, music, and poetry. One of his major achievements ...

It was celebration time Sunday for Laurie Johnson-Wade of New Kensington, who brought her seven grandchildren and two of her daughters to Greensburg for a lesson in Black history — the arts, singing, ...

Nikki Giovanni emerged as a powerful voice during the civil rights era, infusing her poetry with passion, resilience, and a call to action. Her work, such as “Woman,” addresses the ...

Johnson, a renowned author, educator, lawyer and civil rights activist, set out to write a poem to to commemorate President Abraham Lincoln's birthday, and the piece became a song. His brother ...

Poems like The Ice Cream Man ... Longley and Heaney had attended some of the civil rights marches in the late 1960s. Later, in a BBC Northern Ireland documentary he said he was "overwhelmed ...

Rosamond Johnson’s setting of a poem by his brother ... in which she said that her commitment to the work of civil rights was even larger than Martin’s. “They may have killed the dreamer ...

Whether you opt for a self-guided walking tour with a curated map of historically significant spots in hand or a concert or poetry ... the Civil War effort and Black and white civil rights ...