This month WHYY is featuring stories about incredible Black activists and artists who refused to stay silent, like NAACP president Walter White, jazz musician Hazel Scott and more. Don’t miss out on ...

In addition to these behind-the-scenes maneuvers, though, the NAACP’s leadership realized that its most impactful form of activism involved the media. Walter White, the organization’s ...

And, from a young age, Walter White embraced that duality. His involvement in organizing and activism also started from a young age. By 1916, he helped establish the Atlanta chapter of the NAACP ...

In February, you can celebrate Black History Month with a variety of WTTW programming that explores the political, artistic, ...

Recruitment flyers from the KKK and another Patriot Front have recently resurfaced in the Mid-South, similar to reports out ...

The subhead announced the NAACP’s opposition to Black ... meeting with Carter and Vice President Walter Mondale. More than 60 prominent HBCU representatives joined the Aug. 18, 1978, meeting held in ...

Victoria’s film, which was funded in part by the city of Houston through its Houston Arts Alliance, is one of two ...

As the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday approaches, three mimeographed pages in a White ... Walter Reuther, from Whiney Young of the National Urban League and Roy Wilkins of the NAACP.

Detroiters like Stevie Wonder and John Conyers were instrumental in making Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a federal ...

Hundreds gathered at DeVos Place on Feb. 1 to celebrate the work and achievements of Black leaders around Grand Rapids at the ...