Many men are known for one significant feat before transitioning to the great beyond. But Ralph Harold Metcalfe is not your average man. For a time, he was called 'the fastest man on Earth' for good reason. Metcalfe had Marie Attaway and Clarence Metcalfe as parents from May 30, 1910. They were

Rest in peace Herman Cain. You have to feel for a guy who jigged so hard for Mr. trump that it cost him his life. Imagine having cancer and attending

“Although the court did not deny that voter discrimination still exists, it gutted the most powerful tool this nation has ever had to stop discriminatory voting practices from becoming law. Those justices were never beaten or jailed for trying to register to vote. They have no friends who gave

On Friday, July 17, the nation lost two towering figures of the civil rights movement. First came the announcement that the Rev. C.T. Vivian, an early and key adviser to

Talks will continue this morning with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi set to host a meeting with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer at 9 a.m. ET in the Speaker's office with the lead negotiators for the Trump administration, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Treasury Secretary Steven

Although Gil Scott-Heron was born in Chicago in 1949 to mother, Bobbie Scott-Heron, an opera singer and father, Gil Heron, it was his maternal grandmother, Miss Lily, in Tennessee who raised him and imbibed in him his ‘wokeness’ which reflected his life’s work for which he was hailed as well as

Rep. John Lewis was “forceful vision of freedom,” said former President Barack Obama in the eulogy he gave at the Democratic congressman and civil rights activist’s funeral on Thursday. The