They didn’t think I’d finish my walk alive," Moore wrote in his diary. "They didn’t think people believed I really stood for the things I do.” ...

They were beaten, arrested, and called traitors, but they refused to back down from the fight for civil rights.

Dr. Norman Francis, former HBCU president and influential leader in education and banking, died in New Orleans, Louisiana, at age 94 on February 18, 2026.

Norman C. Francis, the stalwart city leader in civil rights, business and education who led Xavier University for nearly half a century, ...

Mr. Jackson was critical to Martin Luther King Jr.’s quest to transform a fight for equality in the South to a national ...

Norman C. Francis was one of the most influential New Orleanians of the past century. These five moments and memories help show his impact.

Norman C. Francis, who advised eight presidents on education and civil rights issues, has been called “one of the most ...

Black History Month began a century ago, in 1926. Historian Carter Woodson started the observance as a week-long event each ...

ESPN's 'SportsCenter on Campus' celebrated Black History Month at Jackson State, featuring coach Mo Williams and Civil Rights ...

A long-time Metro Detroiter who, in his youth, became a Civil Rights Activist, took part in demonstrations that helped to ...

Before passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, scholars say Black-owned restaurants provided strategic cover for revolutionary activity.

In 1961, when Hezekiah Watkins was 13, he was arrested and placed on death row after entering the “whites only” section of a bus station in Jackson, Mississippi.