Atlanta is mourning a lifelong civil rights advocate who helped Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders of the movement. Tom Houck was 79.

The Atlanta City Council said Friday that Tom Houck committed his life to advocating for voting rights and helped shape the ...

In this video, I share a powerful story about Dr. Benjamin Mays and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to highlight the impact of ...

Other schools in the district saw their libraries and lunchrooms refreshed as part of the same push, the station reported. As ...

Kerry Kennedy, daughter of AG and Senator Robert Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1968, discusses her new biography of her ...

At the launch of Arguments with Gandhi, historian Ramachandra Guha explored Gandhi through his critics, contradictions and ideas on caste, religion, non-violence and equality.

More than six decades after the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. composed his “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” the then-young Black woman who helped transform scattered notes on smuggled scraps of paper ...

Yolanda King, the granddaughter of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., called on her generation to "restore the dream" on the 63rd anniversary of the March on Washington.

A Memphis college student and activist, she witnessed Dr. King’s assassination in 1968 when he was shot at his motel and ran to him to check his pulse. By Jeré Longman Clara Ester, a lay minister and ...

I was born into a family that believed in God, loved America and taught that every human being possesses human dignity. Long before prejudice and identity-based politics became fixtures of American ...

President Donald Trump is yet again comparing his crowd sizes to a prominent Black figure, but this time, civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Trump, who infamously claimed to have brought out ...

The MLK Gateway section, a $6.8 million city-funded project, officially opened April 3 and features a new plaza, walkways, landscaping and expands the existing Landmark for Peace memorial. "One of our ...