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Saying a final goodbye to Willie Mays, baseball’s ‘Say hey’ kid

Willie Mays playing stickball in Harlem in 1954. Bettmann/Getty Images by Lincoln Mitchell, Columbia University In 1959, when Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev visited San Francisco and...

Biden honors Black leaders with Presidential Medal of Freedom

President Joe Biden presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Congressman James E. Clyburn. (Photo: DreamInColor Photo / NNPA) by Stacy M. Brown and Ashleigh Fields, The Washington...

Fred Gray, the ‘chief counsel for the protest movement,’ to get Medal of Freedom for his civil rights work

by Jonathan Entin, Case Western Reserve University Over the past seven decades, longtime Alabama civil rights lawyer Fred Gray represented Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King...

Lawyer: Rosa Parks artifacts sold to Buffett's son for $4.5M

DETROIT (AP) — The purchase price for hundreds of items that belonged to civil rights icon Rosa Parks was $4.5 million, a lawyer said...

Obama pays tribute to John F. Kennedy legacy

WASHINGTON (AP) — Honoring the legacy of John F. Kennedy, President Barack Obama laid a wreath at the assassinated president's gravesite as a nation...

Oprah, Ernie Banks, Bayard Rustin and C.T. Vivian among Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients

Bayard Rustin speaks from a platform in front of New York’s City Hall at a rally in favor of integrating schools on May...

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