I was thirteen when I watched the Rodney King beating on the evening news with my father. The grainy footage was relentless ...

As communities across the country on Monday hosted parades, panels and service projects for the 40th federal observation of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the political climate for some is more fraught w ...

TURN on the news and you can be forgiven for thinking the world is going to hell in a handcart. But one singer is refusing to ...

Sign up here to receive “The US in brief” as a newsletter, each weekday, in your inbox. Lawmakers reacted with relief after Donald Trump ruled out taking Greenland by force, a ...

This year, the annual “All Peoples Celebration” run by Alliance San Diego (ASD) had a glaring omission: A Jewish religious ...

Black leaders say Trump's presidency has been anything but carrying out MLK's dream of an "oasis of freedom and justice." ...

Dr. King’s revolutionary vision for economic justice, overcoming political opposition and cementing social justice is ...

In the “Letter from the Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King Jr. warned that the greatest obstacle toward true change is not open hostility, but complacency. Almost 58 years after King’s assassination ...

That was the theme for South Bend’s 40th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day of celebration, spreading the message of unity and ...

On August 28, 1963, National Park Service ranger Gordon Gundrum adjusted the microphones at the Lincoln Memorial to ensure ...

Dr. King was clear that civil rights alone were not going to be enough. He asked, what good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can’t afford to buy a hamburger?” ...

The proclamation came hours after the NAACP criticized Trump's silence as a deliberate failure to honor King's legacy.