Roland Martin and NewsOne Now preview the commemoration of the Million Man March and the Justice or Else rally in Washington D.C.
Dr. Dorothy Height was considered the “grande dame” of the civil rights era. She was an American administrator, educator, and social activist. She also served…
VIA NEWSONE Organizations led by civil rights leaders Dorothy Height and Benjamin Hooks, who both died this month, were in the forefront of the fight for equal rights, but they are now struggling to stay relevant. And nowhere is that fight more evident than in the group founded by Martin Luther King Jr.: the Southern […]
Civil Rights icon Dorothy Height died today at the age of 98, according to media reports. President Barack Obama called Height “the godmother of the civil rights movement” and a hero to many Americans.” In a statement, Obama said Height was the only woman at the highest level of the civil rights movement and witnessed […]
(From CNN) Dorothy Height, a leading civil rights pioneer of the 1960s, died Tuesday at age 98, Howard University Hospital confirmed.
