Civil rights leaders and King family mark MLK Day as a special call to action as Trump takes office
It’s a disquieting contrast for some civil rights advocates who wish to fulfill King’s dream of non-violent social revolution ...
How music stars, movie stars and pop culture helped spread MLK's message
How did Martin Luther King's message get across to America? Partly through pop culture. Music, movies, TV helped spread his ...
How Memphis Grizzlies players have embraced Martin Luther King Jr.'s significance
Several Memphis Grizzlies players have been introduced to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in different ways through their varied ...
The Tragedies That Came After Freedom in the American South
Somewhere Toward Freedom” tells the story of Sherman’s March to the Sea from the perspective of the formerly enslaved.
How did pop culture spread MLK's message?
How did Martin Luther King's message get across to America? Partly through pop culture. Music, movies, TV helped spread his ...
First-time voters & the new president
Whenever I tell my students that the first time I was old enough to vote for president, I voted for John Kennedy, they look ...
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Remembering the cause that mattered to MLK
Kristina Estle, director of the Underground Railroad Museum, wants area residents to remember and understand the cause that ...
A lost chapter in Boston’s civil rights struggle, unearthed
On the site where The Embrace memorializes Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King once stood a social club that ...
No US government group in Syria for search of Austin Tice, State Department says
The U.S. State Department on Monday said there is no U.S. government organization currently on the ground in Syria for the search of Austin Tice, an American journalist taken captive during a ...
Donald Trump has sweeping plans for a second administration. Here’s what he’s proposed
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump has promised sweeping actions in his second administration. The president-elect has outlined a ...
How Gettysburg Became a Refuge for Conservatives Battered by Trump-Era Strife
The Battle of Gettysburg, too, was explicitly a family affair. Many families sent soldiers who fought on opposite sides, including, as one reenactor recites to me by heart, the Walker brothers, the ...
Trump gets inaugurated Monday; here's how the Supreme Court swears in new presidents
While the Constitution does not specify who must administer oaths, Chief Justice John Roberts is expected to swear in Donald ...