At the Rapides Parish Coliseum on November 22, 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood before educators at the 65th session of the Louisiana Education Association, delivering a speech titled “Remaining ...

The Supreme Court’s most enduring ruling on race is not 1954’s Brown vs. Board of Education but a 1974 decision, Milliken v.

Alabama this weekend is marking the 60th anniversary of a key event in the civil rights movement, when voting rights marchers ...

Sixty years after Bloody Sunday, the SPLC honors 40 civil rights martyrs with a ceremony focused on today’s fight to preserve ...

Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're ...

Washington, D.C.'s iconic "Black Lives Matter" street mural, which has served as a powerful symbol of activism and a ...

Jonathan Eig, speaking Thursday at the National Writers Series, won a Pulitzer for 'King: A Life.' Now, comes a look at ...

Teyana Taylor and Aaron Pierre teased a new romance on Instagram with a pair of swanky photos from Oscars night.

For years, the celebration of Black History Month has aroused conservative ire around “identity politics” and “special rights ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- As Black History Month draws to a close ... students and civil rights leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., from across the South, which led to SNCC's establishment.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. knew. King ... Church in Miami to launch a campaign to double the number of registered Black voters. Three months later, he told an American Jewish Congress gathering ...