Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was in his mid-20s when he rose to prominence as the father of the American Civil Rights Movement ...

Congressional leaders had pushed for Biden to pardon Garvey, with supporters arguing that Garvey's mail fraud conviction in ...

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was the face of a movement that transformed a country in which 10% of its people were ...

Terms like “environmental racism” or “environmental justice” were not yet part of the national lexicon when the Rev. Martin ...

On MLK Day, civil rights leaders are reflecting on the day’s ironic juxtaposition to the inauguration of Donald Trump.

The concurrent events have been met with mixed feelings by civil rights leaders, who broadly reviled Trump’s rhetoric and ...

For many people, Donald J. Trump being sworn in as president on Martin Luther King Jr. Day is antithetical to the legacy of ...

Marchers carry signs during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom Aug. 28, 1963. During the march, the Rev. Dr. Martin ...

"I Have a Dream" was delivered by Martin Luther King, Jr. on August 28, 1963, in which he called for an end to racism in the United States.

Women from the Jewish Federation of San Diego visited with civil rights icons remembering the road to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.