gives a press conference regarding an agreement reached on a 'limited desegregation plan' outside the A.G. Gaston Motel in Birmingham, Alabama, February 1963. Standing behind Luther King is his ...

Hundreds of people visited the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute on Monday to honor Martin Luther King Jr.'s life and legacy on MLK Day.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s social justice movement was facing overwhelming obstacles, including a White backlash to Black ...

In his Letter from a Birmingham Jail, King emphasized how we are “caught ... In a new essay at the LA Progressive, Henry Giroux notes that “What we are witnessing today is the rise of a ...

DiLeo studies Catholic social teaching, and notes that Pope Francis’ landmark ... Shepherd, too, draws meaning from King’s Birmingham jail letter to expand his own thinking about climate ...

King was known as a great public speaker, but one of his most significant achievements was his “Letter from Birmingham Jail ... the civil rights scholar, notes that the American left hasn ...

Jan 11, 2025 Jan 11, 2025 Updated Jan 16, 2025 0 WESTERLY — As communities across the nation prepare to celebrate the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on Monday, Jan. 20 — with prayer services ...

Bernice King, daughter of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., accused the Black pastor at President Trump’s inauguration of misusing the slain civil rights leader’s “I Have a Dream” speech.

In a call for nonviolence and a more just country, Rep. Natasha Hill told her colleagues in the Washington House of Representatives that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. warned increased political ...

The resolution notes some of the steps toward progress ... Abell noted King’s “ongoing sense of urgency.” “The letter from the Birmingham Jail is replete with references to the fact ...