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Chicago author Jonathan Eig wins Pulitzer Prize for his groundbreaking biography of Martin Luther ...
Chicago Tribune· 18 hours agoChicago historian Jonathan Eig won a 2024 Pulitzer Prize for biography for “King: A Life,” his 2023...
Confederate Memorial Day is in May. Here's what to know about the controversial 'holiday.'
Gannett via AOL· 1 hour agoIn Texas, the holiday is known as Confederate Heroes' Day and is held on January 19. Workers receive...
Former MLK library site becomes OSU Healthy Community Center on Columbus' Near East Side
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 5 hours ago"I have the audacity to believe that people everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies,...
Pulitzer Prize: Winners of the 2024 arts categories address identity, race and war
Euronews via Yahoo News· 4 hours ago“King” offers a “revelatory portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr.” with new source material that helps...
'Not every day you see a house come down the street': Home tied to MLK relocated to West Augustine
First Coast News· 2 days agoA historic St. Augustine house with ties to civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was...
The history of Memorial Day and when the holiday is observed in 2024
Delaware Online | The News Journal via Yahoo News· 3 days agoIt is one of 11 permanent federal holidays observed in the U.S. The 10 other federal holidays...
Beale Street historic district needs a reboot. Here's developer John Elkington's vision
The Commercial Appeal via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoFind tenants for upstairs office space that can help restore the vibrancy and energy to Beale. We...
Amy Schumer clarifies stance on Israel-Gaza: ‘I don’t agree with anything that Netanyahu is doing’
The Independent via Yahoo News· 7 days agoLast November, a month after the war began, Schumer posted a clip from one of civil rights leader ...
Here are the winners of the 2024 Pulitzer Prizes
NPR· 20 hours agoIlyon Woo also won a Biography Pulitzer for Master Slave...in the aftermath of the Civil War. And the Nonfiction prize went to A Day in the Life of Abed...
How Medgar Evers shaped Amos Brown
The San Francisco Examiner· 4 hours agoAmos Brown considers Medgar Evers his mentor, the catalyst for a life devoted to the civil rights movement. After all, Evers was the reason Brown, at 15...