The clergymen urged black Americans to reject King’s leadership and adopt peaceful means to achieve racial equality. King’s “nonviolent” movement, they said, was anything but. King’s ...

Discover how Black Lives Matter leaders navigate difficult political times. McPhearson believes lasting changes remain ...

There is no King-like figure within today’s movement, nor a small set of organizations directing it. There is a Black Lives Matter Global Network, but local BLM groups are largely independent of it.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Maya King of Politico about growing dissension within Black Lives Matter as the movement centralizes its political power and funding. Just who owns the future of ...

Today, in King’s footsteps are those who are deliberately overstepping a narrow definition of Black politics to forge a new and vibrant united movement that builds upon and transcends the ...

including in 1964 when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. won it for his leadership in the civil rights movement. A CBS News poll last summer showed strong support among Americans for Black Lives Matter.