Traveling to Lincoln from Boston, Higginbotham said her grandfather, the Rev. Walter Henderson Brooks, was born a slave in 1851. He “worked” for a tobacco company in Richmond, Virginia.

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In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., many local nonprofits are planning service opportunities during the 40 Days of Peace, ...

OLYMPIA – In a call for nonviolence and a more just country, Rep. Natasha Hill told her colleagues in the Washington House of ...

LEWISTON, Maine — Bates College in Lewiston was one of many institutions across the U.S. that celebrated the life of civil ...

"What are you doing to make life better?" Gause said to an early morning crowd of hundreds Monday at the Koury Convention ...

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

There will be thousands of the "content of character" quotes from rightwing politicians today. It's time to learn new King ...

I’m willing to bet, based on my education, that any learning surrounding the Civil Rights Movement was probably reserved to ...

Donald Trump's being inaugurated on the day we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. feels like a cruel irony. It is a cruel irony that the nation will commemorate the memory of Martin Luther King Jr. on ...

As the U.S. celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. Day and marks Trump's second inauguration, Kansas City activists worry the new ...

"We’ve got to organize so effectively and so well and engage in such powerful, creative protest that there will not be a ...