COLORADO SPRINGS — As the first Christian church for people of color in Colorado Springs, Payne Chapel African Methodist ... and then became free.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. also recognized ...

Every year on MLK ... national day of service in which all Americans are encouraged to volunteer to improve their communities, according to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American ...

Hill of Community Christian ... first African American appointed U.S. District judge in Kansas. Volunteers with City Year, an AmeriCorps group focused on education, will host their MLK Day of ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is just as much a Detroit holiday ... becoming the longest serving African American member in Congress ever. Rosa Parks worked in Conyers’ office from 1965 until ...