The third Monday in January honors and juxtaposes two historical figures. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is also Robert E. Lee ...

A Mississippi lawmaker has introduced legislation to separate the state’s joint celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. and ...

On Monday, Jan. 19, Florida honors two historic figures with very different goals: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and ...

Robert Lee Coates, 74, of North Little Rock passed on December 16, 2025. He was preceded in death by son, Larry Ziegler. He leaves to cherish his memory wife, Lolene Coates; children, Pastor R. Deshun ...

Robert E. Zimmermann, Sr., 80, of Evansville, passed away Thursday, December 25, 2025 on Christmas morning at Hamilton Pointe in Newburgh. He was born January 3, 1945 in Evansville to the late Francis ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... I was in Richmond, Virginia in 2020 when thousands of protesters desecrated the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and later ...

“The Commonwealth of Virginia will now be properly represented by an actual patriot who embodied the principle of liberty and justice for all, and not a traitor who took up arms against the United ...

A Black woman who led a walkout to protest conditions at her segregated high school in Virginia is now immortalized in the U.S. Capitol. Her statue rests in the same space that one of Confederate Gen.

The U.S. Capitol on Tuesday began displaying a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at her segregated Virginia high school, a pointed replacement for a statue of ...

Dec. 17 (UPI) --A statue of Barbara Rose Johns, a Black teenage girl who protested segregation, has been unveiled at the U.S. Capitol, four years after Virginia selected the civil rights icon to ...

After five years of speculation, Congress finally revealed which Virginian would replace Confederate General Robert E. Lee in the U.S. Capitol — a 16-year-old civil rights activist named Barbara Rose ...

A controversial 2.4-ton road marker honoring Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee appeared last week without hoopla at Marion Square on King Street, surprising some history buffs around Charleston. “It ...