It's Black History Month and the Up First newsletter wants to highlight local history makers. Do you know anyone who has made ...

As time inevitably passes, we must remember that speeches of this magnitude were not given in a vacuum—they were calls to ...

King employed nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience in his campaigns. He organized peaceful protests, boycotts, and marches to to racial injustice.

“The children of negro spirituals got to be the blues and then came jazz and R&B, and all of them used what was developed in the spiritual which was improvisation,” Jones said. The beats and melodies ...

Quentin Williams, who died in a car crash two years ago, bought the house where the civil rights leader stayed.

News has compiled a list of events happening around Northeast Ohio that honor and celebrate the contributions Black people ...

Dr. King’s fight for justice continues in today’s cannabis reform, aiming to right the wrongs of the War on Drugs and ensure fairness in legalization.

Angela Davis led the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture on Monday, in which she praised pro-Palestine activists at Cornell and urged the audience to resist President Donald ...

In honor of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the community came together Sunday afternoon to fill the Warren Ballrooms on the SUNY Plattsburgh campus with laughter, cheer and song. For the first ...

From Hattiesburg to Jackson and beyond, experience monumental Civil Rights sites along the Mississippi Freedom Trail!

Thairie Ritchie, a well-known Santa Cruz community organizer, reportedly self-immolated Jan. 20 — Martin Luther King Jr. Day ...

On Jan. 31, the University of Connecticut’s Jorgensen Center hosted an event organized by the Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in partnership with the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.