On March 19, 1935, the so-called Harlem Riot broke out after a crowd of onlookers mistakenly believed that a white business ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump plans to release about 80,000 pages of material related to the 1963 assassination of President John F.

She remembers how the crowd began to respond to the speaker ... to shout and cheer - herself included. The memory of Dr Martin Luther King's speech - 'I have a dream' - has stayed with her across ...

Art Broady’s free presentation, "The Dream … We Almost Never Heard," will be at noon Sunday, March 16, at First ...

Aided by Father James Robinson, Mrs. Coretta Scott King, widow of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., center, and John Lewis, a ...

Gary Tyler’s lifelong struggle for justice, both personally and socially, animates his artistic work as a quilt maker. His ...

Lawrence Carter of Morehouse College addressed students, faculty and friends at Brigham Young University on Thursday. Carter ...

Martin Marty, one of the foremost interpreters of religion in American public life, died on Tuesday. He was 97 years old.

Sixty years after Bloody Sunday, the SPLC honors 40 civil rights martyrs with a ceremony focused on today’s fight to preserve ...

About 1,000 miles away, in Selma, Alabama, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was preparing to lead ... Chaplain Thompson sought to calm the crowd, explaining that the trip to Selma would show ...