A Bristol social justice organisation is campaigning to bring US activist Martin Luther King III to the city as part of ...

The act was passed in parliament in November 1965 - two years after civil rights activists in Bristol boycotted the Bristol ...

Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux was a renowned Black preacher and broadcaster. Radio Diaries' series "Making Waves" looks at ...

The Montgomery Bus Boycott did start as a one-day boycott of city buses Dec. 5, 1955. But the organizer — the Montgomery ...

On Feb. 28, the activist group People’s Union USA organized a 24-hour “economic blackout.” The group called upon people to refrain from buying anything from big corporations that have knuckled under ...

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 ...

Each of the three movements of Bonds’ “Spiritual Suite” quotes an African-American spiritual — “The Valley of the Bones,” based on “Dry Bones”; “The Bells,” based on “Peter, Go Ring Dem Bells”; and ...

The Equal Justice Initiative, the organization behind Montgomery's National Memorial for Peace and Justice, is now opening ...

The Oklahoma Board of Education recently approved a new, more conservative social studies agenda that has irked even some ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Pastor Jamal Bryant of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church about leading a movement to swear off shopping at Target for Lent.