Eig said the “watering down” of King’s radical message is intentional, noting that King’s close friend Harry Belafonte believed the national holiday was designed to destroy King’s power — the holiday ...

Within the City of Birmingham, there are many people of different races who are coming together for healing, grace, hope, and ...

Ripon College student Gary G. Yerkey was among 10 from the college eager to join the march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, Alabama.

The acclaimed Martin Luther King Jr. biographer will give a talk as part of the Boxser Diversity Initiative's Building ...

On Sunday at Skyline High School, students will perform speeches, poetry, monologues, and scenes in the tradition of Martin ...

and it was then and there that we began to realize that not everyone was on board with Martin Luther King Jr.’s dictum — set forth in his 1963 Letter from Birmingham Jail — “injustice ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The jailhouse bench where Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his famous "letter from a Birmingham jail" has arrived at the Museum of the American Revolution. One may wonder ...

Martin Luther King ... girls as sisters and brothers," King said during a speech. During one of his arrests, King penned his famous "Letter from Birmingham Jail." Later that year, he delivered ...

We cannot and must not retreat to “fortress America” and with the illusion that we are safe between two oceans, nor can we ...