As the nation celebrates Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday, it is also a time to remember the women who helped King ...

Society / Q&A / The white college student supported Black voters in segregated Alabama, and began documenting the front lines ...

"The Civil Rights Act did not give Black people special treatment," said the youngest daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Against a backdrop of political division and upheaval, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter said the holiday honoring ...

Across Atlanta, there are places that helped shape Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s thinking and the civil rights movement, many ...

There's plenty to keep visitors busy in the Big Peach.

Lenora “Nook” Hamer Flakes was a lifelong resident of Ruleville, Mississippi. According to Mississippi Today, she worked as ...

Claudette Colvin, arrested at 15 years old for refusing to give up her bus seat, helped spark the civil rights movement.

Several events will mark MLK Day in Atlanta, the city of his birth he fashioned into the "Cradle of the Civil Rights Movement ...

As MLK Day is observed, tensions rise with Trump's policies targeting diversity and racial justice initiatives. The struggle ...

From Southern schedules to early jet routes, airlines enabled King’s relentless travel while exposing segregation on the ground.