You really can’t overstate the case for visiting Cape Town. First, there’s the in-your-face beauty of a craggy mountain range ...

Kelton Edmonds doesn’t just know the history of the “Greensboro Four,” the group of Black freshman students at North Carolina Architectural & Technical State College, who staged the first ...

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University hosted a celebratory breakfast to commemorate the 65th anniversary ...

A statue of the four freshmen who led the sit-in at the lunch counter of a Woolworth’s department store in Greensboro, North Carolina. Ted Richardson/For The Washington Post via Getty Images On ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro, North Carolina marked the 65th anniversary of the sit-ins at a Woolworth lunch counter that sparked a national civil rights movement. On February 1, 1960 ...

ON FEBRUARY 1ST, 1964, NORTH CAROLINA A AND T STATE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS SAT AT THE WHITES ONLY LUNCH COUNTER AT F.W. WOOLWORTH IN GREENSBORO TO PROTEST RACIAL RACIAL SEGREGATION. OUR ERIN BURNETT ...

Thanks to what we called “Jim Crow laws,” African Americans weren’t welcome at department store lunch counters throughout the segregated South. They could buy food, but they had to pick it ...

The building where the civil rights protest began, Woolworth's, is now a National Historic Landmark. The original lunch counter is still preserved inside the museum.In 1960, four Black students ...