Hinds County Deputy Martin Luther Shields Jr., 37, was fatally shot on Feb. 23 while responding to a domestic dispute call. Hundreds of people, including Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, attended ...

Moss, David, and Dean Grodzins. "Martin Luther King and the Struggle for Black Voting Rights." Harvard Business School Case 716-042, February 2016. (Revised August 2021.) ...

This year marks the 60th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” a moment that marked a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement. The march turned ugly and Lewis was almost beaten to death after ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Fallen Hinds County Deputy Martin Shields, Jr., was laid to rest on Sunday, March 2. Hundreds of law enforcement officers, family, friends and supporters gathered at the ...

A St. Augustine High School graduate and former member of the school's Marching 100 band, King Zulu 2025 Rodney P. Mason Jr. holds up one of his coconut throws which features his alma mater.

Jr., a name that was passed on from his father, but Martin Luther is definitely no stranger to service.” He compared Shields to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who also lived a life of service. “Like ...

An American flag at the Highway 18 overpass in honor of Deputy Martin Shields Jr. After the funeral, the procession was escorted by law enforcement to Cedarwood Cemetery, where Shields was laid to ...

A staunch champion of pluralism, he was described in Time magazine as “the most influential living interpreter of religion in the U.S.” By Sam Roberts Martin E. Marty, a pre-eminent religious ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson on Friday picked Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa (35th Ward) to lead the Chicago Park District, elevating one of his closest allies on the Chicago City Council to oversee the city’s 600 ...

Is James Baldwin as important a cultural/political figure in history as Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks or Thurgood Marshall? Doubtless, Baldwin’s not. To see him as not worth discussing is ...

I thought about all of this suffering. I thought about President Kennedy, Presiden Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr. Rosa Parks, the folder girls, the three civil rights worker that was murdered 50 ...