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 ...

Eig's most recent book, "King: A Life," recently won a Pulitzer Prize and explores the complexities of Martin Luther King Jr.'s ... connections to Detroit. Two months before King cemented his ...

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.

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

President Donald Trump ’s nominee for United States Attorney for the District of Columbia has made a string of racist and ...

NEW YORK — Monday, Jan. 20, commemorates the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther ... King’s actual birthday is on Jan. 15, but the federal holiday always falls on the third Monday of January.

Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're still fighting stubborn segregation, poverty and gun violence.

In honor of the legacy of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Annual Memorial Program will be held at 6 p.m. April 3 at the King Monument Plaza, corner of South  Ashley Street and Martin Luther ...

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 ...

A local community activist wants to honor the work of civil rights photographer James Karales, who grew up in Canton.