Long before today's fast-food giants took over, fried chicken chains were battling for attention nationwide. Many disappeared ...

Callais, effectively narrowing Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act—thus making it harder to challenge voting maps that ...

Female Inductees: Gladys Knight (as part of Gladys Knight & the Pips), Grace Slick (as part of Jefferson Airplane), The ...

We look back at the life and legacy of an American who helped shape our politics and our culture. By Sam Sifton I am the host of this newsletter. “My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the ...

Jesse Jackson Sr., a longtime civil rights activist who twice vied for the Democratic presidential nomination in the 1980s, died February 17 at age 84. A protégé of Martin Luther King Jr., Jackson was ...

The civil rights leader was one of the country’s most influential Black figures. The civil rights leader was one of the country’s most influential Black figures. Credit...Mark Makela for The New York ...

(RNS) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., a longtime civil rights activist who twice vied for the Democratic presidential nomination in the 1980s, died Tuesday (Feb. 17) at age 84. A protégé of the Rev.

On April 3, the GRAMMY-winning Kronos Quartet will release Glorious Mahalia via Smithsonian Folkways, a new album honoring the life, voice, and activism of New Orleans–born gospel legend Mahalia ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - On this day in history, in 1911, the “Queen of Gospel,” Mahalia Jackson, was born. The first Mahalia Jackson’s Fried Chicken restaurant opened right here in Memphis in 1968.

Mahalia Jackson recorded on a major label for the first time in 1937, to mixed reviews. Mahalia Jackson records on a major label for the first time in 1937 -- and surprisingly, the Queen of Gospel's ...

In reading Eric Feldman’s view on the most significant forgotten historical site in New Orleans, I am reminded of Mahalia Jackson. Nestled in the heart of Uptown New Orleans on Millaudon Street stands ...