This Juneteenth we need to discard the caricatures of King that we so often see and learn from what he actually did and believed. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks before crowd of 25,000 in ...

The King family and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), which King founded, have objected to the early release, arguing the files contain illegally obtained wiretaps and personal ...

The King family and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), which King founded, have objected to the early release, arguing the files contain illegally obtained wiretaps and personal ...

Senators Ossoff and Warnock reintroduced a bill to designate Atlanta's West Hunter Street Baptist Church a National Historic Site.

Founded in 1957 by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders, the SCLC has been at the forefront of social ...

He was a close friend of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Abernathy co-founded the Atlanta-based Southern Christian Leadership Conference and assumed its leadership after King as assassinated in 1968.

This was Martin Luther King Jr’s dream. The Poor People’s Campaign is what he’d been working for in the months before he was killed in April 1968. The city would last for six weeks.

Wikimedia Commons/Warren K. Leffler, U.S. News & World Report The 1968 Poor People’s Campaign Martin Luther King Jr. planned ...

Ga., challenged budget plans from Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins and White House budget director Russell Vought during hearings.

Beaten but not broken, Hayling called the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to assist in taming the violence.

In the spring of 1962, students from Miles College boycott the downtown merchants in Birmingham, AL.

Martin Luther King Jr. had kicked off a voting rights ... Next to him, representing King’s organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was Hosea Williams. King was back in Atlanta that ...