A repainting event for the Black Lives Matter mural in front of Santa Cruz City Hall will take place on Saturday, a reminder ...

A comic book about Martin Luther King released in 1958 is still being used as a resource to teach non-violence ...

At cross-cultural gatherings in Bethlehem, West Bank, groups of children and adults turn to a 67-year-old, colorful comic ...

MOMA pays tribute to a restlessly innovative artist whose life’s work was to give abstraction soul.

In 2020, after a summer of protests rocked U.S. cities, the words “Black Lives Matter” went from the rallying cry of racial justice demonstrators to words lining the very roads along which they ...

On one door, the title lyrics from the Nina Simone song “To Be Young, Gifted, and Black” is emblazoned in red, green, and yellow, the primary colors ... like Kamala Harris,” “a leader like Martin ...

Recently I’ve been spotting bunches of tulips: pink, yellow, and orange flower heads ... be showcased in the White House, a bust of Martin Luther King Jr completed in 1970 and loaned in 1990.

The name we recognize today as one of the most powerful voices during the Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Jr., was originally not named “Martin Luther.” His father decided to change ...

It’s easy to oversimplify the life of Martin Luther King Jr., to ascribe to him narrow goals of voting rights and desegregation. But King was complicated. He was versed in religion, philosophy ...

Only once before since it became a federal holiday has Martin Luther King Jr. Day fallen on the same day as a presidential inauguration. That was in 1997, when Bill Clinton took the oath of office ...

I cover global and domestic health care and conservation. Martin Luther King Jr. spent his final days protesting the hazardous work conditions suffered by black sanitation workers in Memphis.

Martin Luther King Jr. leads the Walk to Freedom through downtown Detroit on June 23, 1963. MLK Day will be observed on Jan. 20. Bettmann Archive The first holiday of the year was just a couple of ...