Former state rep. Byron Rushing speaks at the funeral service for former rep. Gloria Fox at the Charles Street A.M.E. Church ...

Miller, publisher and half of the official writing staff of Roxbury's seven-month-old Negro newspaper, the Bay State Banner sits down, puts his feet up on the desk, and begins to talk excitedly ...

For Black History Month, the Globe is featuring profiles on the living civil rights leaders who were named Boston “heroes” on the 1965 Freedom Plaza that surrounds the “Embrace” sculpture.

Minister Don Muhammad, the decades-long leader of the Nation of Islam’s Boston headquarters and a confidant of Minister Louis Farrakhan died Tuesday. He was 91. Minister Don joined the Nation of Islam ...