The longtime NAACP New York State Conference leader broke glass ceilings and offered endless guidance and wisdom.

Louise Day Hicks spoke during a Dorchester forum in 1979 when she was a candidate for re-election to the Boston City Council. Hicks, who served for one term in Congress from 1971-1973, also challenged ...

The N-word is offensive due to its history of oppressing and degrading Black people,” Tasheena M. Davis of Lawyers for Civil ...

NEW YORK - Hazel Dukes, former president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and a prominent figure in the civil rights movement, died at the age of 92 on ...

Neighbors and friends, shocked at the passing of civil rights icon Hazel Dukes, 92, recalled her as a trailblazer but also as ...

Hazel Dukes, a longtime civil rights activist and president of the NAACP New York State Conference died Saturday, she was 92.

Holden blogger Aidan “Turtleboy” Kearney is set to argue in court Wednesday that witness intimidation charges he faces in ...

Calls rang out on social media to purchase nothing on Friday, but not everyone thought the boycott was time well spent.

“I think that not only will it change daytime, but it’ll also change the landscape of TV,” said Sheila Ducksworth, president ...

With awards season in full effect, many of the industry’s biggest and brightest descended on cities such as Los Angeles, New ...

Saturday kicked off a two-day festival dedicated to Civil Right leader W.E.B. Du Bois, who found freedom and community in Great Barrington.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Former Vice President Kamala Harris accepts the chairman’s award during the 56th NAACP Image Awards on ...