Tennessee has long been a battleground for courageous, strategic, and non-violent direct action – from the Clinton 12 to the ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a U.S. holiday and national day of service. It took a long time for the country to get there It was first proposed four days after King's 1968 assassination outside a ...

It erases the systemic, longstanding segregation and racial inequality endemic in Northern cities and marginalizes the robust, years-long movement in Chicago that Martin Luther King supported and ...

In the nearly 40 years that the United States has celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the national holiday has never ...

Martin Luther King Jr., for example, argued that with passage ... The swing vote on the court, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, had been a skeptic of racial preferences and had authored a 1995 ...

Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux was a renowned Black preacher and broadcaster. Radio Diaries' series "Making Waves" looks at ...

(WAVY) — The legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. lives on 56 years after his untimely ... “We drove up to Washington [D.C.], on that day, got there very early so that we could get ...

FORT PIERCE — The family of the 29-year-old woman killed by gunfire at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration in 2023 has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit, seeking at least $715,884.14 from ...

LERONE MARTIN: He's known as the Happy Am I preacher, so he has this kind of charisma, smiling, very happy. My name is Dr. Lerone Martin, and I am the director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Research ...

On March 19, 1935, the so-called Harlem Riot broke out after a crowd of onlookers mistakenly believed that a white business ...

Celebrate World Water Day with guided walks, fishing events, and more on March 22 at Wheaton Regional Park. Also, youth can ...