Recent travelers agreed the National Civil Rights Museum should be at the top of anyone's list of things to see in Memphis.

Dallas native Richard Miles is now part of the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis Tennessee for his work with people ...

The fight over Black political power in the South continues to unfold across states haunted by slavery, segregation and ...

Photo by K. Michelle Moran GROSSE POINTE FARMS — Students and staff at Grosse Pointe South High School in Grosse Pointe Farms celebrated one of the most notable events in the school’s history when ...

Thornell photographed Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior during a 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights march that followed the attack on the Edmund Pettus Bridge that became known as “bloody Sunday.” ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Former Associated Press photographer Jack Thornell, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning picture of a shotgun-felled James Meredith looking back toward his would-be assassin on a ...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one. In the months after a very contentious election, our nation seems more divided than at any time since the decade before the Civil War. The new Republican president is ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Mason Temple, a church in Memphis where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his final speech, will be upgraded with a $1.2 million federal grant to preserve a treasured ...

Located near the former Lorraine Motel, where King was fatally shot on the evening of April 4, 1968, Mason Temple is the site of King's stirring sermon known as the “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1968, which included the Indian Civil Rights Act and the Fair Housing Act. This came one week after the assassination of Martin ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - The National Civil Rights Museum marked the 58th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination Saturday with a ceremony honoring his legacy and calling for continued ...