Every January, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, is observed on the third Monday. King Jr., who would have turned 95 in 2024, was ...

The mass mobilization on May Day was a show of power — and a dress rehearsal of the tactics it takes to win against an ...

But looking at the photos of these protests, something else stands out. Nurphoto / A march from 1970 for abortion rights ...

Most Americans are familiar with the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s — an era in which peaceful protests led by the Rev.

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The Greater Rochester Martin Luther King Jr. Commission revealed plans for the upcoming Rochester Juneteenth Parade and ...

Scholar Lerone Martin reveals little-known pieces of history in ‘Young King: The Making of Martin Luther King Jr.’ ...

South Street Seaport Museum will present The Promise of Liberty: Words That Shaped a Nation, featuring a rare first-edition U ...

Rochester, N.Y. — The City of Rochester is preparing once again to celebrate its rich African American heritage. Mayor Malik ...

Martin Luther King Jr. confidante Clarence B. Jones appeared at SFFilm 69 as the subject of the documentary "The Baddest ...

Lerone Martin's book follows the civil rights leader through childhood, escaping Jim Crow life working in Connecticut and ...

It took the Voting Rights Act in 1965, and its revisions decades later, to restore Black congressional representation in the ...