At Syracuse University in 1965, Dr. King said "change is not self-operative; you cannot depend upon American institutions to function without prodding and pressuring." ...

Martin Luther King Jr.’s family offered ... to spread its goals across the US, arguing that King and his Southern Christian Leadership Conference were “made to order” for the Communist ...

Congress passed a law in 1992 requiring the documents surrounding President Kennedy's assassination to be released by 2017, ...

Martin Luther King Jr.’s family offered their response to President Trump’s decision to release the secret FBI files on the ...

US President Donald Trump has ordered the release of files on the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert ...

Less than a week into his first term, President Donald Trump has been on a roll signing more than 20 executive orders and ...

The poet Maya Angelou remains beloved more than a decade after her death. Yet few lift up the power of her voice in the ...

Rustin and Randolph worked again in 1948 on a successful campaign to end segregation in the U.S. military under President Harry Truman. A pacifist, Rustin protested World War II by resisting the draft ...

Wood helped to coordinate Martin Luther King Jr.’s visit to Lynchburg ... which became a local unit of Dr. King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference,” Coleman recalled.

Before US President Donald J. Trump returned to the Oval Office and began systematically attacking initiatives related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) across US institutions, Alabama ...

The dogs, hoses, and armored cars were not effective in the way that Bull Connor and much of white Birmingham wanted them to ...