March on day of Martin Luther King’s death calls for action on voting rights, racism
Fifty-four years after his death, the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr. could be felt in the hundreds who marched
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History
Celebrating Women for All they Do
CELEBRATING WOMEN FOR ALL THEY DO BY R.L. WITTER It’s March—Women’s History Month, when we laud and remember celebrated women
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Newark Honors Harriet Tubman
Downtown Park to be Renamed and New Monument Constructed Linda Caldwell Epps is President & CEO of 1804 Consultants Thankfully
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The Wrap-Up
To God Be the Glory! Power to the People! Let Freedom Ring! “. . . It’s such a change/For us
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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson
Biden’s Nominee for Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States By Leslie Nash Even in preschool Ketanji Brown
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Love and Respect, Pillars for Positive Change
Formerly a successful attorney, Rev. Dr. Edmonds is interim pastor of the Church of the Covenant in New York City.
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LIL HARDIN ARMSTRONG
by Jone Johnson Lewis Updated March 11, 2017 Known for: first major woman jazz instrumentalist; part of King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band; marriage to Louis
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NEA to honor Washington human and civil rights hero Delbert Richardson
Annual gala marks 50th anniversary of the NEA-American Teachers Association merger WASHINGTON— Founder and curator Delbert Richardson’s traveling African-American museum,
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Tennessee Episcopalians add to growing efforts to honor lynching victims
The Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee is leading efforts to research and memorialize lynching victims in Nashville and statewide, following in
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A Basquiat Sells for ‘Mind-Blowing’ $110.5 Million at Auction
Joining the rarefied $100 million-plus club in a salesroom punctuated by periodic gasps from the crowd, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s powerful 1982
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