Eig said the “watering down” of King’s radical message is intentional, noting that King’s close friend Harry Belafonte believed the national holiday was designed to destroy King’s power — the holiday ...

Leading up to the Beloved Benefit on Aug. 14, we are recognizing a total of nine nonprofits that are advancing social and ...

MLK leads march for voting rights in 1965, U.S. attacks Iraq and Afghanistan in 2003, Dover AFBase spared in 2004, financial ...

The protesters of the civil rights movement didn’t just show up. They planned for every eventuality. It’s a lesson that’s starkly relevant today.

LERONE MARTIN: He's known as the Happy Am I preacher, so he has this kind of charisma, smiling, very happy. My name is Dr. Lerone Martin, and I am the director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Research ...

Today’s fight to vote does not yet call on us to show the physical bravery displayed by the heroes on the Edmund Pettus ...

This was one of the great lessons learned by Martin Luther King Jr. and others in the Civil Rights ... important laws in American history, the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Arguably, through their ...

What you need to knowMayor Cherelle L. Parker is delivering her second budget address this morning to Philadelphia City ...

Ms. Shaheen’s retirement will set off a high-stakes fight for an open seat in a state where she has been a leading political ...

Hundreds took to the Brooklyn Bridge on March 9 to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the historic yet ...