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 ...

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 ...

When King and the SCLC announced plans to expand their civil rights activities to northern cities, Black supported the movement. “Those of us from the North, black and white, had to be trained ...