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The legacy of civil rights icon John Lewis will live on across America Thursday, with more than 1,600 events scheduled on the ...
When news broke that Donald Trump had been the target of an assassination attempt at a campaign rally last summer, Martin Luther King Jr.'s son was among the voices that decried the violence ...
As the president wages a war on DEI and threatens to roll back other civil rights efforts, the King family is continuing the Nobel laureate's mission.
Officials said the northbound and southbound lanes of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive are closed between Patton Avenue and Preddy Boulevard due to a crash with injuries.
A federal judge in New York this week blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to end Haitians’ temporary protected status in September – five months earlier than what was granted by the Biden ...
Martin Luther King III, his wife Arndrea Waters King, and daughter Yolanda Renée King participate in a vigil at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on April 4, 2022, in Washington, D.C. Sarah ...
King was drawn to Memphis in 1968 to support some 1,300 predominantly Black sanitation workers who went on strike to protest inhumane treatment.
But since Barack Obama’s first term as president, protests staged by left-of-center groups have borne less and less resemblance to those led and inspired by Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s.
President Barack Obama moved the Martin Luther King Jr. bust into the Oval Office in 2009. Trump kept it during his first term but now it's gone.
Local News Boston rally honors 60 years since Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1965 Freedom Rally “I think my father and mother would challenge us to be a better America because we can become that.
A federal judge is considering whether sealed documents relating to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination should be released before 2027. Evening Standard/Hulton Archive, via Getty Images ...
A historic Black church in downtown Memphis that was the organizing point for Martin Luther King Jr.'s final stand has suffered a devastating fire.