It's Black History Month and the Up First newsletter wants to highlight local history makers. Do you know anyone who has made ...

Early in the year, the significant legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. resonates strongly. The third Monday in January is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, providing an occasion for reflection, along with ...

As time inevitably passes, we must remember that speeches of this magnitude were not given in a vacuum—they were calls to ...

By sitting down to lunch at a North Carolina department store, the brave men inspired many others to take part in nonviolent ...

The College of Charleston is kicking off Black History Month this week by releasing a calander of eventsBlack History Month, ...

About 60 years later, Mahatma Gandhi read Thoreau’s essay while he was in South Africa ... as shown when Martin Luther King Jr spoke of Gandhi as the guiding light of their technique of social ...

The death of Ruth Ann Butler sent shockwaves through the Upstate as political figures Jackson, McMaster and White offer ...

SOME OF THE AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT CREW WHO DIED WERE BASED OUT OF CHARLOTTE. THESE INCLUDE A FLIGHT ATTENDANT IN EPSTEIN AND COPILOTS 28 YEAR OLD SAM LILEY AND JONATHAN CAMPOS. WE’RE STILL WAITING ...

Dr. King was invited to speak at “The Sunday Evening Forum" on the University of Arizona campus. Tucson native Jacque Barnes ...

the son of the legendary slain civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr., talked to PEOPLE about what it was like spending the first 10 years of his life living in the same house as the man who ...

South Carolina plans to execute Marion Bowman Jr. on Friday for the Feb. 16, 2001, shooting death of 21-year-old Kandee Martin, who was killed five days before her son's second birthday.

Marion Bowman, Jr ... and Martin was white. Viewing chairs are placed in the witness room of the execution chamber in the Broad River Correctional Institute in Columbia, South Carolina.