The park is best known as the site where Sen. Robert F. Kennedy delivered a speech on April 4, 1968, informing a crowd of ...

The Safe Haven Center invites the Dallas County community to gather on the footsteps of Selma City Hall on Monday, April 6, for a prayer vigil in recognition of the 58th anniversary of Dr. Martin ...

With the nearby $7 billion United Center redevelopment project kicking off just to the east, a study aims to help bring new retail, housing and other activity to a long-neglected portion of the ...

Visiting the sites was especially profound at a time when other forces seek to erase, minimize, or redefine the complicated history that shapes this evolving experiment we know as the United States.

The leader of one of Kansas City’s preeminent civil rights organizations is retiring. Mara Rose Williams looks at her ...

On Oct. 16, 1968, Tommie Smith and John Carlos made a powerful statement on the podium after the 200-meter dash in the 1968 ...

Bill Russell has spoken candidly about the racism that he encountered during his playing days. He succeeded wildly in spite of it, winning 11 championships during his career. Perhaps his most ...

Theater review: Playhouse on Park’s ‘The Mountaintop’ depicts a man reckoning with his legacy ...

Martin Luther King Jr.'s enduring message emphasizes choosing love over hate, framing it as a conscious decision vital for ...

One of the most revered figures in American history can no longer be called heroic. But the movement he led can be.

Ald. Stephanie Coleman, whose South Side ward includes Kennedy-King College, said adding the Rev. Jesse Jackson's name to the ...

That exchange came to mind yesterday when I read the New York Times story documenting Cesar Chavez’s grooming, molestation, and rape of two middle-school-aged girls, the daughters of activists in the ...