Woodrow Wilson delivered his first inaugural address. The day “dawned cloudy,” Irwin Hoover recalled, “but the weather ...

Bayard Rustin/Audre Lorde Breakfast honored the legacies of LGBTQ+ icons Bayard Rustin and Audre Lorde and celebrated Martin ...

In a speech on the Montgomery bus boycott, Martin Luther King Jr. called the action a means to an end — the creation of a ...

Martin Luther King, Jr. was a leader and a Christian who left his fingerprint on the American psyche and remains an indelible ...

At the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis one September day, tourists paused solemnly before a ...

Insight into Benjamin E. Mays, Howard Thurman, and Bayard Rustin can help develop a better appreciation of Dr. Martin Luther ...

January 20 is the federally-recognized holiday honoring the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. Here are ways to uphold ...

How did Martin Luther King's message get across to America? Partly through pop culture. Music, movies, TV helped spread his ...

Hedgeman urged the male members of the march's planning committee to have a woman speaker, but they initially refused.

Joe Calhoun launched his activism during the 1968 sanitation workers strike, listening to Martin Luther King Jr. and other ...

Joe Calhoun became an activist during the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike, helping the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and ...

Late one Friday night, a young man trudged into his kitchen while his wife and infant daughter slept. He heated a cup of coffee and paced the floor. When he placed the cup on his table, his hands ...