Civil rights champions have diverse college journeys. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. may be the most recognized civil rights leader in U.S. history, but across many decades, numerous Black activists ...

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Roy Shivers was a game-changer in professional football for reasons that transcend touchdowns, tackles, X’s and O’s. His ...

Chicago Historian Sherman “Dilla” Thomas shared the history of Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the impact she had on a small ...

Like Miss Baez, he prefers to keep most of his time for himself ... Like I once wrote about Emmett Till in the first person, pretending I was him. From now on, I want to write from inside me ...

Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. was with his cousin and best friend Emmett Till the night he was murdered and is still haunted by the ...

Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., the cousin of Emmett Till, told a group in Lincoln it's important to keep telling stories that show ...

Parker was 16 at the time and traveling to rural Mississippi. His cousin Emmett, 14, wanted to tag along. Watch: Last living witness recalls the lynching of Emmett Till Last living witness recalls ...