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

A federal judge is weighing a request from the Trump administration to unseal records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. — files that the civil rights leader’s relatives want to keep ...

Parren J. Mitchell, a trailblazer in politics and civil rights, was the first African American elected to Congress from Maryland.

The City of Annapolis, in partnership with the Caucus of African American Leaders and the Martin Luther King Jr Committee, ...

When Martin Luther King, Jr. announced a Harlem press conference in June, the son of a jazz-loving transit cop threw up his hand to cover the inspirational leader. Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr ...

Video: Arkansas MLK Jr. Commission holds several events on Martin Luther King Jr. Day LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The Arkansas Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission is launching a program to fight ...

DENVER (KDVR) — A longtime civil rights leader and personal friend of Martin Luther King Jr., Rev. James D. Peters, Jr., died on Saturday. Peters, 92, was born in Connecticut and was a founding ...

She would hang out and watch as he played pool and table tennis with his friends, he'd take her for drives, and even out for meals when his student budget would stretch. Best of all, they would ...

Peters, who died Saturday at age 92, marched with Martin Luther King Jr. across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, in 1965. He used that legacy to fight for civil rights in Denver when he ...

A Denver pastor who helped Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. organize the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and was a prominent figure in the Civil Rights movement passed away this week.