When he and other Black protesters were arrested at a whites-only lunch counter in 1961, they tried a new strategy — ‘Jail No ...

Though Martin Luther King Jr. Day was officially recognized on Monday, students, staff and community members gathered in ...

While the movement achieved critical victories in securing legal rights and breaking down systemic injustice, it fell short ...

Donald Trump's second inauguration coincidentally falls on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day this Monday. Civil rights leaders Marc ...

Leaders are seething after Trump revoked enforcement of equal employment opportunity laws, or Title VII, under the Civil ...

On MLK Day, civil rights leaders are reflecting on the day’s ironic juxtaposition to the inauguration of Donald Trump.

It’s a disquieting contrast for some civil rights advocates who wish to fulfill King’s dream of non-violent social revolution ...

While conservative activists praise these efforts as a return to meritocracy, left-leaning activists believe these actions ...

"I just want to live in hope that some of the ideals of the late Dr. King might flow over into this new administration," said ...

President Biden on Sunday announced pardons for five individuals, including multiple civil rights advocates, and commuted the ...

The Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People will honor the civil rights activist at its annual meeting on Sunday.

The Alabama African American Civil Rights Heritage Consortium is working to expand tourism to historic civil rights churches ...