Opal Lee, known to many as "The Grandmother of Juneteenth," will not participate in this year’s Walk for Freedom march due to ...

Some on the “Juneteenth Jubilee and Freedom Walk,” which retraced the steps of enslaved people seeking freedom, say they ...

Opal Lee, "The Grandmother of Juneteenth," will participate virtually in this year's Walk for Freedom after her recent ...

The Walk for Freedom is held on Juneteenth to mark the two-and-a-half-year delay between the Emancipation Proclamation and ...

He added that the "Freedom March" was designed to emphasize that it was a "people’s cause and not just a leader’s cause." On those two Saturdays in 1963, the demonstrators, ...

On August 28, 1963, more than 250,000 people gathered in the nation’s capital for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The march was the brainchild of longtime civil rights activist and labor ...

An audience member listens Monday during the 29th Freedom March at TheatreSquared in Fayetteville. The event was held to honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a breakfast, ...

He added that the "Freedom March" was designed to emphasize that it was a "people’s cause and not just a leader’s cause." On those two Saturdays in 1963, the demonstrators, ...

The aftermath of the Freedom March and Rally A photo published in The Northeastern Edition in the 1980s shows Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. marching with other community leaders in Boston in 1965.

Civil rights activist Bayard Rustin speaks to a group of march marshals before the 1963 Freedom March. Rustin was chief organizer for the historic march. The tide of authoritarianism is rising across ...