The Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike: King's Last Cause For Economic Justice
They wanted better working conditions and higher pay, but they needed help strategizing. Martin Luther King Jr. went to Memphis to help.
At the turn of the 20th Century, a 19-year-old African-American woman from Henderson, N.C., began building a school – the Palmer Memorial Institute – that would educate more than 1,000 black youth.
Over the past several years, home prices in Forsyth County have soared, and today, it's a
seller's market. But not in many of the region's African-American neighborhoods.
Renowned musician and Greensboro native Rhiannon Giddens is among the newest MacArthur "genius" grant recipients.