The reverend and civil rights leader was a major proponent of using nonviolent protest to fight for equality.

As I began writing “Bayard Rustin: American Dreamer,” my biography of the 20th-century radical leader and activist, one of my colleagues cautioned me not to “fall in love.” This, of course, is good ...

Dr. Bettina Love, a William F. Russell Professor at Columbia University, lectured on how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s community shaped the Civil Rights Movement at 6 p.m. Thursday. “I think in moments ...

Good Good Good’s guide to Black activists who have taken a stand against oppression, inequality, and systemic racism.

A forgotten network of radicals helped teach King how to organize—and how to link civil rights to economic redistribution for all ...

As I am writing this, I am looking at a video on social media in which a group of women are celebrating the Founders’ Day of ...

We must recognize a fundamental correspondence between Birmingham in 1963 and Minnesota in 2026, and the broader experience ...

EXCLUSIVE: A feature on Coretta Scott King’s decades long pursuit of the real story behind the 1968 assassination of her husband is in the works from Byron Allen and Ava DuVernay. The Selma helmer and ...

A local organization is working on a project to honor a civil rights champion.  Reverend Dr. Larry Fryer, and his ...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., speaks during a public rally at Messiah Baptist Church in Yonkers on May 28, 1965. Seated are A.

For John Marshall High School senior Renashea Hunt, exploring one of Martin Luther King Jr.’s lesser-known speeches was ...