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You may know Rosa Parks, but what about other African American historical figures? This Black History Month, learn about these change-makers of U.S. history.

View the comic strip for Mike Luckovich by cartoonist Mike Luckovich created January 26, 2023 available on GoComics.com

The University of New Orleans honored a select group of individuals who have had a profound impact on the University and the city of New Orleans at the second Hall of Distinction gala.

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Pittsfield Cultural Council is looking to create a guide to the city's public art for locals and tourists alike.  On Wednesday, the panel voted in favor...

From the January 2023 issue of Notes from the Horn Book.

More than 500,000 spring-blooming flowers celebrate spring from Feb. 25 to Apr. 16DALLAS, TX / ACCESSWIRE / January 18, 2023 / The Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden ushers in spring with the Southwest's

Which helps to empower conservative groups like moms for liberty, who are harassing educators and librarians to ban books about dr. king. rosa parks, and ruby bridges. and claiming without a hint of irony that dr. king would have wanted it that way. joining me now is the reverend al sharpton, host of msnbcs politics nation, who joined president biden today at the national action networks annual mlk day breakfast, and christina greer, associate professor of political science at fordham university...

An official at Shale Meadows Elementary School in Ohio brought a reading of "The Sneetches" by Dr. Seuss to a halt when a third grader mentioned racism.

Jasmine Graves Black-Clemons, principal of William Frantz Elementary in New Orleans, hailed the schools addition to the Louisiana Civil Rights Trail in remembrance of its integration by 6-year-old Ruby Bridges in 1960, an event immortalized in a Norman Rockwell painting.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans school that was desegregated by a young Ruby Bridges in 1960 officially became a stop on the Louisiana Civil Rights Trail as a marker commemorating the event was unveiled Thursday.