Coretta Scott King’s vision shaped MLK’s politics and the broader freedom struggle, says historian Jeanne Theoharis.

Since 1986, the 56-foot painting at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library has served as a visual portal into the civil ...

Across Southern California, people continue to recognize King with visual tributes, monuments and reclaimed public spaces ...

The official unveiling of the 11-foot-tall statue and unity gathering will take place Saturday morning at 9:30 in Fountain ...

Claudette Colvin's refusal to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Alabama in 1955 was a key moment in the US civil rights ...

Colvin was arrested months before Rosa Parks gained international fame for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus.

October 2025 marked the 20th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ death. She was 92 when she died in her Detroit home in 2005. WDET’s Jerome Vaughn covered the story at the time and WDET aired that story this ...

The church was the starting point for the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights marches in 1965. Nearly a quarter of the trail’s sites are in Alabama, a place many consider ground zero for the civil ...

Stand-up comedian Dave Chappelle rejected the notion that late Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder Charlie Kirk was "this generation's Martin Luther King," arguing that, besides the fact that both were ...