In 1962, after the sit-ins and the Freedom Rides had passed into history, he entered graduate school at Clark Atlanta University to avoid the military draft. He earned a master’s in biology ...

Atlanta Jewish Film Festival will kick off with the documentary "Ain't No Back to a Merry-Go-Round," documenting the fight to ...

What began as Negro History Week — established by historian Carter G. Woodson in February 1926 — evolved into Black History ...

In Atlanta, immigration agents arrested a Honduran man outside the church he helped plant. Is it an isolated case or the ...

Charles Person, the youngest member of the original Freedom Riders who faced racial violence to challenge segregation in interstate travel, died on Wednesday in Fayetteville, Georgia. He was 82.

For Charles Person and Thomas Gaither, 1961 was an eventful year in their young lives. Person was 18 and became the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, and Gaither was 22 when he introduced the ...

Knoxville will mark Black History Month in 2025 with art and performances, plus a "Conversation with a Legend" featuring Beck ...

Defying mainstream media narratives about the exhausted opposition, protests are picking up in D.C. and across the country, ...

McPheeters, Atlanta’s first Black librarian ... From the hidden libraries of enslaved people to the sit-ins of the Civil Rights era, Black communities have continually asserted their right ...

In Atlanta on April 10 ... They refused to leave and, the next day, more students joined the sit-in. A wave of sit-ins spread across college towns in the South. People got arrested, the news ...

If you really squint, you might be able to see the logic behind the Dallas Mavericks trading Luka Doncic. Maybe they know ...