At the Rapides Parish Coliseum on November 22, 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood before educators at the 65th session of the Louisiana Education Association, delivering a speech titled “Remaining ...

The drive popular with cyclists is expected to fully reopen once work on its namesake bridge behind the Philadelphia Museum of Art is done.

Universities will get nowhere by facilitating the Trump administration’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian students.

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 ...

My schedule has been erratic this winter while I deal with some of that real-world stuff, which I’ll have some more to say about it in a near-future newsletter or column. Meanwhile, the fight for a ...

A Fresno block slated for millions of dollars in renovations just got more good news – the city announced Tuesday the county supervisor has decided to allocate ...

The Rev. Marcus D. Cosby of the Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church in Houston is encouraging his congregation to take part in a ...

The next morning, more consequences awaited Cunningham at Male High School. The principal, Williams Standford Milburn, called ...

This month, our nation remembers the heroes of Selma, Alabama.  Sixty years ago, they marched for voting rights, survived brutal beatings, and inspired the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

The protesters of the civil rights movement didn’t just show up. They planned for every eventuality. It’s a lesson that’s starkly relevant today.

Hundreds took to the Brooklyn Bridge on March 9 to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the historic yet ...

Sixty years after Bloody Sunday, the SPLC honors 40 civil rights martyrs with a ceremony focused on today’s fight to preserve ...