Martin Luther King III stood on the same stage where his father spoke nearly six decades ago on Thursday at Great Neck South ...

It's Black History Month and the Up First newsletter wants to highlight local history makers. Do you know anyone who has made a difference and should be celebrated this month? If so, we want to hear.

“The children of negro spirituals got to be the blues and then came jazz and R&B, and all of them used what was developed in the spiritual which was improvisation,” Jones said. The beats and melodies ...