The sisters of Denise McNair, who was killed during a racist bombing, hosts lunch and learns with young activists.

Yet King understood that racism, segregation, and police brutality were a national condition, not a regional issue. Many of ...

Nobel Peace Prize awardee Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, triggering riots across the US. His death shook ...

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The event is most famous for the "I Have a Dream" speech delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. from the steps ...

Media outlets that praised Martin Luther King Jr.'s work in the South treated Northern segregation differently.

Motley in 1962 with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and William Kunstler, the civil rights lawyer who would go on to defend the Chicago Seven. Library of Congress On April 3, 1963, King’s ...

Even though he has not experienced major trauma, Kolven Hoey’s learning about the tragedies that befell Lisa McNair and Sarah Collins Rudolph felt like a double sucker punch to the emotional gut. “I ...

The annual observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day invites Americans to reflect on a transformative figure whose vision ...

Booker spoke for more than 25 hours against authoritarianism and in support of Americans feeling the stress of the Trump ...

The United States must be transformed to find the moral compass it needs to survive the deep-seated fear and anger dividing ...

Josephine Baker was an American-born actress and dancer, who would go on to take France by storm and become one of Europe’s ...

Trump winning the second time, there’s the mass sense of well, we knew this could happen again, because it happened before. It’s not unprecedented, he does win the popular vote, and there’s a whole ...