The Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice will launch a queer history digital archive this Fall to celebrate the life and legacy of civil rights activist Bayard Rustin. Rustin was an openly gay ...

About 600 civil rights marchers left Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma on March 7, 1965. They walked peacefully toward ...

The Arkansas Martin Luther King Jr. Commission is in Las Vegas for the NBA Summer League to promote nonviolence, racial harmony, community empowerment and educational opportunity for all Arkansans.

CNN anchor Abby Phillip will publish a new biography about Rev. Jesse Jackson in fall 2025. 'A Dream Deferred: Jesse Jackson ...

The president, who has a history of spewing sometimes vile insults at rivals, has in recent days escalated his attacks ...

Zohran Mamdani spoke at a rally in Harlem as he sought to build on momentum from New York City’s Democratic primary. Mamdani told a National Action Network rally Saturday that residents ...

Contributing opinion columnist Sheletta Brundidge shares that her and Nekima Levy Armstrong's prominent roles in the boycott against Target have been sidelined, similar to how Black women were labeled ...

D.C. was buzzing with activity Monday as Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the presidential Inauguration fell on the same day for just the second time in history. Famed Civil Rights activist Reverend ...

How Martin Luther King Jr. Was an Innovator King’s innovative thinking helped pave the way for Black entrepreneurial success.

On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was shot to death on the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

While Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as one of America's most impactful civil rights leaders, his father was also an activist who headed the NAACP in Atlanta and led marches in the city.