"PORTLAND - Madam secretary, Mrs. Harris and Pat were the type of warm greetings Patricia Roberts Harris received at the 69th NAACP Annual Convention here on Independence Day.
As she stood to speak to the 10,000 delegates and friends gathered in the…
"Rahway, N.J.
Holidays are good for many things, among them reflections. This past Fourth of July allowed me to do just that: to ponder just what America means to me as a black man.
The night of the Fourth, a local television news station dragged…
"Exercising the democratic rights afforded them under the Constitution, the “March-On-Washington” committee held an historic meeting in Chicago Friday night.
The event brought 12,000 people to the world famous Coliseum to give a deafening ovation…