Former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young settled into the role of doing the “dirty work” right away when he began working for the ...

Rejecting prevailing views of the movement as either exemplary or ineffectual, Brandon M. Terry offers a bold new vision of ...

ATLANTA — Georgia was at the center of the fight for civil rights and throughout the decades, WSB has been committed to covering the movement. Born in 1929 in Atlanta, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would ...

Lionel Richie opened up about growing up during the civil rights movement in an interview with The Guardian on Oct. 4.

Lionel Richie says his parents stopped him from marching with Martin Luther King Jr. The singer recalled "longing to be part of" the civil rights movement in his youth. Richie's parents forbade him ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has been dead almost 60 years, but his philosophy — his lifelong commitment to "nonviolent direction action" to effect political change — remains relevant as a playbook for ...

They didn't hold high public office, they didn't fight wars and they didn't possess vast wealth and riches. Yet, Dr Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X still managed to become two of the most iconic ...

The National Civil Rights Museum held a moving tribute to honor the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. on the anniversary of his assassination. Speakers at the event, including State ...

Lionel Richie said his parents would not allow him to march with Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr. when he was young.

The Voting Rights Act, a pivotal law from the civil rights era, faces its biggest threat as the U.S. Supreme Court's ...

OpenAI has halted the generation of artificial intelligence (AI) videos depicting Martin Luther King Jr., a leader of the ...

ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. — The future of the St. Johns County jail, where civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. was held in 1964, is uncertain after an application to demolish the historic building ...