At the COFO headquarters, a storefront office on Lynch Street, in the Negro business district, efficient white girls in cotton print dresses ... When Martin Luther King visited the state recently ...

Enter Richard Kahlenberg with his latest book, Class Matters, subtitled The Fight to Get Beyond Race Preferences, Reduce Inequality, and Build Real Diversity at America’s Colleges .

As the president wages a war on DEI and threatens to roll back other civil rights efforts, the King family is continuing the ...

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. He chose that location in part to honor President Abraham Lincoln as “a ...

Civil Rights activist and Baptist minister Martin Luther King, Jr., is most remembered for his use of nonviolence and civil disobedience to advance civil rights and pursue equal opportunities for ...

TAMPA BAY, Fla. — Every year on January 16, the nation celebrates the life, legacy and dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Although the holiday is observed every third Monday of January ...

When Martin Luther King, Jr. announced a Harlem press conference in June, the son of a jazz-loving transit cop threw up his hand to cover the inspirational leader. Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr ...

Located on the northwest rim of the Tidal Basin, this 30-foot granite memorial pays homage to civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Everything from its address at 1964 Independence Ave.

Video: Arkansas MLK Jr. Commission holds several events on Martin Luther King Jr. Day LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The Arkansas Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission is launching a program to fight ...

DENVER (KDVR) — A longtime civil rights leader and personal friend of Martin Luther King Jr., Rev. James D. Peters, Jr., died on Saturday. Peters, 92, was born in Connecticut and was a founding ...

A community luncheon followed. Read Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” “I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white ...