Editor's Note: Velma Maia Thomas delivered this history at the recent centennial celebration hosted by The Odd Fellows Buildings owner and restorer Janis...
A trip to South Africa provides painful reminders of the protracted struggle to establish democracy, how the United States propped up the White minority-rule...
Local law firm Holland & Knight announced the winners of its annual Dream Scholarship Essay Contest: A Call for Tomorrow's Leaders. The contest challenges...
(AP) — Four young victims of a deadly Alabama church bombing that marked one of the darkest moments of the civil rights movement are one step closer to receiving Congress’ highest civilian honor. By a 420-0 vote, the House on Wednesday passed a measure that posthumously would award the Congressional Gold Medal to Addie Mae Collins, ...
U.S marshals arrested Everett Dutschke, 41, of Tupelo, Mississippi, Saturday morning for mailing letters laced with the poison ricin to President Barack Obama and two other public officials, report Reuters. According to the DJ Journal, Dutschke was charged with “knowingly developing, producing, stockpiling, transferring, acquiring, retaining and p ...
It’s official! His Royal Airness, Michael Jordan, 50, married his model girlfriend Yvette Prieto, 35, in a star-studded Florida wedding that included...
(AP) — President Barack Obama joked Saturday that the years are catching up to him and he’s not “the strapping young Muslim socialist” he used to be. Obama poked fun at himself as well as some of his political adversaries during the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner attended by politicians, members of the media and H ...
