Hazel Dukes was born in Montgomery, Alabama before her family moved to New York. There, while attending college at Adelphi University, is where she first got involved with civil rights when a man ...

Jubilant attendees at the Union Baptist Church in Hempstead on Monday night celebrated the life of civil rights activist Hazel ... Dukes, who served for decades as the president of the NAACP ...

Last year, the Duke basketball open practice in Brooklyn's Barclays Center didn't draw much of a crowd. In fact, then-second-year head coach Jon Scheyer had time to meet a bulk of the supporters ...

Socialist NYC Comptroller Brad Lander was caught on camera apparently dozing off during Tuesday’s memorial service for civil-rights champion Hazel ... Dukes, the former president of the NAACP ...

Political bigwigs and common community folks filled a Harlem church on Wednesday to bid a rousing farewell to civil rights icon Hazel Dukes, 92, the longtime NAACP leader who died earlier this ...

Mourners filled the Mother A.M.E. Zion Church in Harlem to remember the life of Hazel Nell Dukes, a longtime civil ... the national president of the NAACP. Additionally, she led the NAACP ...

Hazel Dukes' funeral was held Wednesday in Harlem ... She was a trailblazing civil rights leader and president of the New York NAACP for nearly five decades, one of the few women to lead the ...

‘SHE WAS YOUR BEST DEFENDER’: New York’s political leaders remembered Hazel Dukes as an adviser, a defender and a pillar of New York politics at the NAACP leader’s funeral in Harlem today.

Hazel Nell Dukes, the civil rights leader who was the national president of NAACP for three years and New York State NAACP president for five decades. In an uplifting and emotional homegoing ...

said in a statement shortly after Dukes' death that she "was more than a civil-rights leader; she was the heart and soul of our community." Longtime NAACP President Hazel Dukes is honored with a ...

Even in death, Dukes is giving back. In lieu of flowers, people are urged to donate to the NAACP Youth and College ... that their voices may be heard, Hazel Dukes will be there," Byrd said.