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Kansas State celebrates rediscovery of King speech

Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech at Kansas State University just months before his death in 1968, and school officials long believed that any full recording had been lost in a fire later that year. More »

Man lobbies to see father honored for service in WWII

URBANA, Ill. - His father was the first black man - and still the only one - elected to a countywide office in Champaign County, may have been the first African American elected a state's attorney in Illinois history, and later was appointed a U.S. attorney for a large section of downstate Illinois. More »

Kansas' messy racial history dates to its founding

TOPEKA, Kan. - During the prelude to the Civil War, Kansans fought on the side of what was right, seeking to keep the scourge of slavery out of the state and help the enslaved. More »

Small SC town pauses to remember astronaut son

CHARLESTON, S.C. - In the small community of Lake City, people knew Ron McNair was special long before the man who would become the town's most famous son became the second black American to fly in space. More »