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
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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 Cash Michaels It is not widely known, but 50 years ago this week, on April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was supposed to
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 Zantzinger (1939-2009) who struck her with a cane, because she
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
Despite being born in the segregated south when Blacks had few if any rights, even after he was targeted by
