This is an opinion column. What would Uncle do? Sixteen-year-old Barbara Rose Johns didn’t have to think very long for an answer. Her uncle was Rev. Vernon Johns, the fiery pastor of Dexter Avenue ...

The Rev. Vernon Johns was a man ahead of his time. In Montgomery, Ala., during the late 1940s and early 1950s, the Virginia native boycotted the segregated buses and demanded service at whites-only ...

The AFRO knows what it’s like to endure challenging times. John H. Murphy, Sr., a former enslaved man founded the AFRO in 1892 with $200 from his wife, Martha Howard Murphy. Together they created a ...