Forty-nine years ago, Black Americans across every spectrum gathered at West Side High School in Gary to hash out an independent Black political agenda. The late Gary mayor Richard G. Hatcher ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rev. Jesse Jackson, executive director of Operation PUSH, speaks from the floor of the National Black Political Convention in Gary ...

The early 1970s saw a collective outrage in the Black community following years of discrimination and the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. It led to a historic gathering of ...

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Forty-eight years ago this summer, at the 1972 Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach, a Black woman made history. The name of Shirley Chisholm, a 47-year-old congresswoman from New York, was ...

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The 1972 Republican National Convention, the last time the RNC was held in the state of Florida, concluded 40 years ago today. The Convention, which saw the nomination of incumbent President Richard ...

Chairman's message / Lawrence F. O'Brien -- The challenge of the twentieth century / Harry S Truman -- The Democratic Party is the instrument of the people / Lyndon B. Johnson -- Why is America ...