Yolanda Renée King is the sole grandchild of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King—and is just as passionate. She ...

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

Resisting the rain and the heat, 3,000 people lived in Resurrection City, on the Washington Mall, for weeks, to demand an end to poverty. This is episode 51 of Stories of Resistance.

During a talk, Young reflected on his friendship with Martin Luther King Jr. and an important lesson he learned early in life ...

A recent Columbia resident shares some family history, and a celebration committee member shares why Juneteenth is important.

The journey from local observance to national holiday was a lengthy one, spanning over a century-and-a-half of American ...

This Juneteenth we need to discard the caricatures of King that we so often see and learn from what he actually did and ...

Beginning on Juneteenth, the sole copy of the federal orders that freed enslaved Black people in Texas will be on display in ...

(THE CONVERSATION) On March 7, 1965, Alabama state troopers beat and gassed John Lewis and hundreds of marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. TV reporters and photographers were there ...

The statement is signed by: The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human ...

Yet, Dr Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X still managed to become two of the most iconic figures of the 20th century.

What happened to Martin Luther King Jr.? In 1968, King and other Southern Christian Leadership Conference members were called to Memphis to support a sanitation workers' strike.