The award-winning journalist and historian delivered the University’s 2026 Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture, applying historical lessons to present-day challenges and celebrating the power of ordinary ...

TAMPA, Fla. — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrates the memory of Dr. King and his achievements as a civil rights leader. The holiday is observed annually on the third Monday of January and this ...

Here is a look at the life of civil rights activist Andrew Young. Personal Birth date: March 12, 1932 Birth place: New Orleans, Louisiana Birth name: Andrew Jackson Young Jr. Father: Andrew Jackson ...

Though primarily identified with the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, which he supported from the mid-’60s till the ...

Remembering Bernard Lafayette and his nonviolent yet relentless march for social justice and freedom throughout history.

For the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday, we're reminding you what the Selma marches were all about.

The Top 10 TV Female Icons of the 1960s Countless female performers left their indelible mark on television in the 1960s. But ...

The Flower City Mark is a unique piece of iconography, which grew from a Nixon-era branding project to a ubiquitous piece of Rochester.

With hits like “Respect” and “Chain of Fools,” she defined a female archetype: sensual and strong, long-suffering but ...

As a Black Jewish man who grew up calling my father's close friend the Rev. Jesse Jackson "Uncle Jesse," I'm saddened by Jackson's death and by the decadeslong splintering of the Black-Jewish alliance ...

For the past few years, Gov. Ron DeSantis and GOP legislators have been on a censorship tear that would make 17th-century book-burners offer a round of Puritanical applause.

Two moral teachers and a handful of lessons that we need now.