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 ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Drive will fully reopen once work on its namesake bridge behind the Philadelphia Museum of Art is completed, likely by September, Mayor Cherelle L. Parker said in her second ...

Holding hands with other prominent Black leaders, the Rev. Jesse Jackson crossed the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Alabama, ...

Who was Virginia’s first Black governor? When did the University of Virginia admit its first Black student? Who founded Henrico’s Ziontown Community, a settlement built in the Tuckahoe District after ...

Cotton, who is chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he had no idea what was in the files and that he had total ...

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 ...

On Feb. 27, second grade students in Mallory Courtney’s class at Slaughter Elementary School learned about the life and work ...

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

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.

The acclaimed Martin Luther King Jr. biographer will give a talk as part of the Boxser Diversity Initiative's Building ...

Walt Disney is the most honored person in Oscar history. He received 59 nominations and 22 competitive awards throughout his career. Composer John Williams is the most nominated living person - 54 ...