The White House will host more than two dozen descendants of civil rights icons and historical figures as they commemorate Black History Month, the White House exclusively confirmed with theGrio.

Descendants of several civil rights leaders and abolitionists came together Tuesday at a Black History Month event hosted by the White House.

The families of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells, Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, Emmett Till and more will meet, in some cases for the first time.

The descendants of some of the most well-known civil rights activists of the 1950s and 1960s and other prominent historical leaders gathered at the White House for a special celebration of Black ...

At the White House on Feb. 13, Vice President Kamala Harris addressed the descendants of some of the most influential civil rights leaders, who convened in the same room for the first time ...

EXCLUSIVE: Invited guests include the descendants and families of Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., […] The post White House to convene descendants of ...