During this Black History Month and every day of the year, let's celebrate Black identities, including voices that bravely ...
Growing up in the 1960s in Lynchburg, Virginia, Jim White backed the Rev. Martin Luther King’s peaceful, prayerful push for equality. But as a Black teenager taunted daily, banned from “Whites Only” ...
She'll be there on Thursday to discuss "The Dead Are Rising," the Malcolm X biography she worked on with her father, Les ...
The man behind Black History Month was a Harvard scholar who felt “all Americans should understand the largely overlooked ...
Sixty years since the bullets flew inside the Audubon Ballroom, the echoes of Malcolm X’s voice refuse to fade ... for the America that preferred its Black men bent or broken.
Malcolm X had been a public critic of King and rejected the Nobel Peace Prize winner’s direction on race relations.
Black history happens every day, and the stories from NPR listeners are good examples of that. From becoming the first Black ...
RaMell Ross’ film ‘Nickel Boys’ is nominated for Best picture. His 2018 documentary is an attempt to express Black life and ...
Founded by Carter G. Woodson in 1976, Black History Month is a month-long celebration in February that aims to spread pride ...