COURTESY PHOTO Jim Becker at his surprise 98th birthday party last August. Jim Becker, an author and a newsman who covered numerous historic events around the world, but might be most remembered in ...

Students at Saint John Paul II Catholic Academy’s Lower Mills campus are celebrating Black History Month with a ...

But today, a massive Black-white wealth gap remains and Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy has as much ... King watched Jackie Robinson and the Brooklyn Dodgers play the New York Yankees in the ...

A former NBA player repeatedly promised to build a resort-arena on the Las Vegas Strip. Investors and Nevada officials believed him. Then it all fell apart.

Three score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we now stand, delivered, “I Have a Dream,” calling for an ...

(Photo by Sandy Huffaker for The San ... Pastor Terry Wayne Brooks delivers the Keynote speech at the Annual Jackie Robinson YMCA Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Human Dignity Award Breakfast at ...

A photo of King’s fingerprints from ... he was still known as Cassius Clay), Sammy Davis Jr., Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Jackie Robinson, Nat King Cole and more. The movie "One Night in ...

The museum space is the former childhood home of Terry’s relative, Earnie Shavers, a heavyweight boxer best known for his hard-hitting punch. He grew up to become a champion fighter, brave enough to ...

Braceville is a small community with a lot of history. It produced famous athletes, such as boxer Earnie Shavers, who fought ...

Skenes, 22, won the National League's Jackie Robinson Rookie of the Year ... Pirates pitcher after Cal Ripken Jr. announced his selection. In a photo shared by Dunne — who is currently in ...

The Suffolk and the Riverhead Anti-Bias Task Force present the second installment of “Black History On Screen.” ...

The famous Team USA jacket from Carlos's protest against racial discrimination at the 1968 Olympics is being auctioned off ...