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CONCORD — The Cabarrus County Community Foundation recently awarded $64,750 in grants to 19 local projects. The grants will support programs that address a wide range of community needs across

Today's conservatives would have vilified the real Martin Luther King Jr. for fighting for everything they hate.

There was a small army of people behind Dr. King, building the Civil Rights movement, these are a few of the many names.

It’s a forgotten chapter in civil rights history: The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stayed at Yankee Clipper Inn while organizing Cleveland drive.

CTS recently completed collecting an oral history of Rev. Jackson’s civil rights work in Chicago as a way to preserve the stories of the Civil Rights Movement in Chicago.

As I look back over those formative years during a decade of education and great social change, there are four sermons that stand the test of memory and influence over time.

US trade sanctions: Instead of better governance and practices yielding better returns, most companies in the US emphasise “value” over “values.”

Rev. Jesse Jackson was the most significant Black leftist political candidate of the twentieth century, running for president in 1984 and 1988.

Two local artists are among this year’s recipients of the 3Arts grant, bringing in $80,000 in unrestricted funds for their musical and artistic projects.

The radical ideas of one generation become the common sense of the next. Here, Peter Dreier honors the people who moved progressive ideas in America from the marginal to the mainstream.