Civil and voting rights activists gathered in Jackson, Mississippi, to honor what would have been the 100th birthday of civil ...

More than 60 years after a white supremacist from Signal Mountain, Tennessee assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers, his daughter still sees the same str ...

Discover some of the architecture and history of Cleveland's Black churches, many of which congregations are trying to ...

California Rep. Lateefah Simon made sure her voice was heard loud and clear at a congressional hearing that appeared to have ...

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 ...

The program at the Lincoln Memorial featured an impressive roster of speakers—including John Lewis—and closed with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Midway through his address, King abandoned his prepared ...