On Aug. 28, 1963, more than 200,000 people joined in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom to advocate for the economic and civil rights of Black Americans and other disenfranchised groups of ...

President Kennedy once posed the question: What is it to be an American today when our people are divided as never before? Now as then, too many of us have lost our way, our will and our sense of ...

On Aug. 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous speech at the March on Washington. Part of his speech was impromptu and those words became a pillar of the civil rights movement. On a warm ...

TEMPE, AZ — Throughout his historic life, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. made countless iconic speeches. From Selma to Memphis, and of course, his groundbreaking I Have a Dream speech from our nation's ...

The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom brought together a legion of speakers pivotal to the Civil Rights Movement. A quarter of a million people were there. Decades later, the “dream” of one ...

Nikole Killion is a CBS News congressional correspondent based in Washington D.C., who has covered some of the biggest stories on Capitol Hill since 2021. Killion has also served a key role in CBS ...

The draft of MLK's most famous speech lacked its most famous lines. The 'I Have a Dream' part was suggested by Mahalia Jackson as King neared the end of his 1963 speech at the Lincoln Memorial. As the ...