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In the disturbing clip, a young man can be seen walking up to a Black male teacher and punching him right in the face. A ...
The 1965 rally featuring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. drew a crowd of 20,000. At Saturday’s event, several hundred ...
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed almost 60 years ago Friday. Here is a quick look into his life and remarkable legacy.
I think my father and mother would challenge us to be a better America because we can become that. It starts with something ...
Media outlets that praised Martin Luther King Jr.'s work in the South treated Northern segregation differently.
Arielle Gray's grandfather — then a teenager — joined the march to the Common led by King drawing attention to the racial ...
The People’s Organization for Progress will host an all-day conference on Saturday to plan resistance to what the Newark-based civil rights group says are efforts by the Trump administration and ...
The rally included Martin Luther King III as well as other local and state leaders across a variety of sectors.
Legendary attorney Fred Gray — once deemed the “chief counsel” of the Civil Rights Movement by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — was honored with a statue outside the Alabama State Bar Association on ...
Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the third Monday in January, became federally recognized in 1983 when President Ronald Reagan signed it into law.
Organizers, including Embrace Boston, Everyone250 and the city of Boston, said the rally "honors a pivotal moment in history, ...