This Juneteenth we need to discard the caricatures of King that we so often see and learn from what he actually did and ...

The book concludes with King’s famous “Mountaintop Speech” in Memphis, the night before his assassination: “And I’ve looked ...

The materials are scheduled to be unsealed in 2027, but President Trump signed an executive order in January aimed at moving ...

A federal judge is weighing a request from the Trump administration to unseal records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin ...

At cross-cultural gatherings in Bethlehem, West Bank, groups of children and adults turn to a 67-year-old, colorful comic book with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

Kids still knock on the book bank door at Martin Luther King High School, but volunteers go out into the hallway to explain they can’t come in. The nonprofit is negotiating with the school district.

As the president wages a war on DEI and threatens to roll back other civil rights efforts, the King family is continuing the Nobel laureate's mission.

Historian Jeanne Theoharis’s new book, King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South, is a major reexamination of the civil rights leader that offers a differe ...

A comic book about Martin Luther King released in 1958 is still being used as a resource to teach non-violence ...

In 2021, in the midst of this “racial reckoning,” as it was often called, Congress passed legislation turning Juneteenth into ...

We feature a special broadcast marking the Juneteenth federal holiday that commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned of their freedom more than two years after the ...