Eig said the “watering down” of King’s radical message is intentional, noting that King’s close friend Harry Belafonte ...

Eight Places You Need to Visit and Understand Chicago’s Black Freedom Struggle   Go to Montgomery, Alabama today and markers ...

I was more intrigued with Martin Luther King Jr., though, and Malcolm X, and how the guy who wrote "Roots" betrayed them both. Eig's most recent work, "King: A Life," won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for ...

Joshua Suddith was only 4 years old when he learned that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. enrolled at Morehouse College at the age of 15. Suddith then decided that he wanted to surpass that achievement. On ...

Martin Marty (Ph.D. ’56), the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the History of Modern Christianity, ...

Jenkins' latest play, starring LaTanya Richardson Jackson and Kara Young, observes a powerful Black family during a chaotic ...

Barber II emphasized the importance of mobilizing and standing up to injustices in the face of political polarization and inequality at the University’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture ...

Oh, to live in a world where an original rom-com like Pretty Woman (1990) is the fourth-highest domestic box office success ...

According to Professor Dare, “From early encounters in the class, Azu struck me as a young man who was most likely to succeed ...

the following year with Martin Luther King Jr. In 1987 he published the first of his three-volume survey of 20th-century American religion, in which he described the impact of fundamentalism on ...

The Laurel County African American Heritage Center hosted a day of festivities Saturday, bringing the community together to celebrate history and unity. Particularly, residents joined together to ...

On New Year’s Day, Mayor Brandon Johnson welcomed 2025 by reminding Chicago leaders of the headwinds Black politicians like him face. The mayor sent a Crusader piece from last October titled, “Are ...