Throughout February, we’ll be highlighting historical African American figures who’ve had an impact in their fields, whether that be art, music, politics or sports. All of them have a Florida ...

The fact that the meeting was even happening was enough to produce an air of subversive excitement. On August 25, 1925, a ...

At 22 years old, the man who would become the "founding father" of America’s civil rights movement, gave up on Jacksonville. Asa Philip Randolph (1889-1979) was the youngest of two boys born in ...

Asa Philip Randolph was an American labor unionist and civil rights activist. In 1925, he organized and led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first successful African-American-led labor ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The only Black labor history museum in the world is celebrating 29 years, with new expansions on the way. The National A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum tells the story of the ...

WARREN — The Trumbull County Chapter of the A. Philip Randolph Institute hosted its annual scholarship roast at DiVieste’s Banquet Center Saturday and Deryck Toles, founder and CEO of Inspiring Minds, ...

A. Phillip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and chairman of the March on Washington Movement, speaks at the FEPC (Fair Employment Practices Committee) Day Rally at ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – In an effort to save money, a proposal to close nearly 30 Duval County Public Schools is on the table. The closings could eliminate a handful of magnet schools, including A.

For someone looking for original material about Jacksonville’s history, it was like stumbling upon a treasure, not exactly buried, but kept in the archives of a New York university: the transcript ...

Following passage of the Voting Rights Act, APRI was co-founded in 1968 by A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin. APRI forged an alliance between the civil rights movement and the labor movement.