At the Rapides Parish Coliseum on November 22, 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood before educators at the 65th session of the Louisiana Education Association, delivering a speech titled “Remaining ...

One woman, whom we call Aunt Maxine, took the lead. Under her guidance, our church garden yielded 1,200 pounds of produce, from broccoli and corn to collard and mustard greens. Later, we added apple ...

Eig said the “watering down” of King’s radical message is intentional, noting that King’s close friend Harry Belafonte believed the national holiday was designed to destroy King’s power — the holiday ...

Morehouse College alumnus and former GQ writer Mark Anthony Green speaks about his HBCU upbringing and his new film "Opus".

The protesters of the civil rights movement didn’t just show up. They planned for every eventuality. It’s a lesson that’s starkly relevant today.

Worried about the future, marchers crossed the Edmund Pettis Bridge on Sunday in the 60th commemoration of one of the most ...

SELMA — Sheyann Webb-Christburg was eight years old when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. attempted to lead hundreds in ... Jesse Jackson in wheelchair and at far right, U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, ...

Andrew Young remembers a surreal national moment when ABC News interrupted its Sunday night airing of the movie “Judgment at Nuremberg,” which explored the bigotry, war crimes and complacency of ...

The events in Selma on March 7, 1965 and the days that followed marked a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement.

Texas Congressman Al Green is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. Representative Al Green recently captured attention ...

The Alabama Highway Patrol said the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van that Stone was traveling in overturned on Interstate 65 early ...