This Juneteenth we need to discard the caricatures of King that we so often see and learn from what he actually did and ...

The hearing on Wednesday came through a lawsuit brought by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the civil rights organization based in Atlanta associated with Dr. King, which has sued to ...

A recent Columbia resident shares some family history, and a celebration committee member shares why Juneteenth is important.

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which King led, is opposed to unsealing any of the records for privacy reasons. The organization’s lawyers said King’s relatives also want to keep ...

Resisting the rain and the heat, 3,000 people lived in Resurrection City, on the Washington Mall, for weeks, to demand an end to poverty. This is episode 51 of Stories of Resistance.

In the spring of 1962, students from Miles College boycott the downtown merchants in Birmingham, AL.

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which King led, is opposed to unsealing any of the records for privacy reasons. The organization’s lawyers said King’s relatives also want to keep ...

(THE CONVERSATION) On March 7, 1965, Alabama state troopers beat and gassed John Lewis and hundreds of marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. TV reporters and photographers were there ...

Beginning on Juneteenth, the sole copy of the federal orders that freed enslaved Black people in Texas will be on display in ...

The government’s secret files on the assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. could be released ahead of schedule after a federal judge in Washington indicated he was open to ...

The journey from local observance to national holiday was a lengthy one, spanning over a century-and-a-half of American ...

Discover some of the architecture and history of Cleveland's Black churches, many of which congregations are trying to ...