by Lottie L. Joiner On March 16, 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long of Woodstock, Ga., killed eight people, including six Asian women, at Atlanta-area spas. Long was arrested about 150 miles south of Atlanta after his parents reported him to authorities. The next day, Long, who was headed to Florida to…

Last August, the city of Charlottesville,Va., made national headlines for a White supremacist rally that turned violent. James Alex Fields Jr., drove into a group of protesters, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injuring several others. …

Today the nation celebrates what would have been Nelson Mandela’s 100th birthday. The beloved South African leader led a revolution against apartheid, spending a brutal 27 years in prison. In 1993, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and a year later Mandela became South Africa’s first democratically elected president…

Today the nation celebrates what would have been Nelson Mandela’s 100th birthday. The beloved South African leader led a revolution against apartheid, spending a brutal 27 years in prison. In 1993, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and a year later Mandela became South Africa’s first democratically elected president…

Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images Thousands lined up outside the City of Praise Family Ministries church outside Washington, D.C., on Saturday to celebrate the life of comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory, who died Aug. 19. As the crowd waited for the doors to open, some sang freedom songs like…

Two years ago, a young woman did something nearly unthinkable: Brittany “Bree” Newsome approached the South Carolina statehouse, scaled a 30-foot flagpole, and took down the Confederate flag. “You come against me with hatred, oppression, and violence,” Newsome shouted with the flag in her hand. “I come against you in…

On February 14, 2017, I fainted in SunTrust Bank on Capitol Hill. I was rushed to Howard University Hospital where it was determined that my blood pressure had dropped too low and I was dehydrated. I posted my status on Facebook and within minutes the calls started coming. First it…

Fifty years ago, on April 4, 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a speech at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City. It was titled “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence.” …

The new documentary film, “Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise,” begins with her quote, “We must encounter defeats but we must not be defeated, but in fact it may be necessary to encounter defeats so that we’d know who the hell we are.” Indeed, Angelou, who was literally transported with…