We owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to her and to everyone who led or participated in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, writes.

Jackson, who died Feb. 17 after a long illness, was also a prolific negotiator, responsible for securing the release of hundreds of hostages, "human shields" and prisoners across the world. More than ...

When Martin Luther King Jr. served as the pastor of an Alabama church during the latter half of the 1950s, he would get food ...

Al Letson revisits a story about civil rights activist Bayard Rustin that he produced 16 years ago for Black History Month.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson had a long and storied history with Michigan, where he won the state's Democratic presidential caucuses in 1988.

Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat on a segregated bus in 1955 sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and was the ...

A deeper look at Rosa Parks’ decades of organizing, resistance, and political struggle beyond her iconic 1955 arrest. Rosa Parks’ […] The post Rosa Parks’ activism long before the bus: A lifelong ...

“When I say poor, I don’t just mean black people.” –Martin Luther King Jr. “The true enemy is war itself.” –Martin Luther King Jr. For thirteen years he lived and worked with the knowledge that a ...

A Martin Luther King Jr. Day sermon by the Rev. Canon Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas. Ad Policy The Rev. Canon Kelly Brown Douglas during her sermon at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City ...

Nike and Lakers F LeBron James have “found themselves at the center of controversy” over a tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a “shoe in the colorway of the site where Dr. King was ...

I’m here to make trouble – good trouble. Good trouble is what we need now because we are in the fight of our lives. The fight ...

In 1965, three months after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. declared from the steps of the state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, that the aim of the civil rights movement was no more and no less than ...