As a teenager growing up in Boston, Wayne Lucas vividly remembers joining about 20,000 people to hear the Rev. Martin Luther ...

I think my father and mother would challenge us to be a better America because we can become that. It starts with something ...

A newly discovered note from CT’s first editor, Carl Henry, shows how King’s Birmingham Jail missive shifted a white pastor’s ...

Discover 21 influential Black leaders who changed history through activism, politics, education, science and justice.

The King Center and voting rights advocacy group Black Voters Matter are uniting to influence a new generation of activists.

MLK was murdered 57 years ago today…and many of us have still not come to grips with the fact that there is no one leader of the Black Freedom Movement (or ... imperialism, and white minority rule?

1.Martin Luther King understood that segregation was a ... This was scary, controversial work and most Americans, Black and white, condemned it. When Martin won the Nobel Prize, she saw a broader ...

Media outlets that praised Martin Luther King Jr.'s work in the South treated Northern segregation differently.