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On April 4, 1968 – 50 years ago this week – a shot rang out aimed at the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn. Civil rights leader

Most of us know the story. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was in Memphis, Tennessee, to support the sanitation workers there, who were going on strike. King was

By Julianne Malveaux Hattie Carroll (1911-1963) was a 51-year-old restaurant server who was murdered by a White aristocrat, 24-year-old William Devereux

By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire There were ads with Morgan Freeman rapping and ads with babies from around the world

By Busta Brown This past Saturday morning, Jan. 20, HandsOn Northwest North Carolina helped turn a day of service into

The Winston-Salem City Council and the Human Relations Commission honored two city residents as the 2018 recipients of the Martin