Founded in 1957 by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders, the SCLC has been at the forefront of social ...

He was a close friend of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Abernathy co-founded the Atlanta-based Southern Christian Leadership Conference and assumed its leadership after King as assassinated in 1968.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (Associated Press) - On this day 10 years ago, South Carolina pulled the Confederate battle flag from its ...

Ga., challenged budget plans from Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins and White House budget director Russell Vought during hearings.

The decision is the latest in a series of actions by the Trump Administration during its second term that reflect a broader rollback of LGBTQ rights. Since January, the administration has reinstated a ...

Senators Ossoff and Warnock reintroduced a bill to designate Atlanta's West Hunter Street Baptist Church a National Historic Site.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., American, 1929 - 1968 Roy Wilkins, American, 1901 - 1981 John Lewis, American, 1940 - 2020 Whitney Moore Young Jr., American, 1921 - 1971 Negro American Labor Council, ...

Wikimedia Commons/Warren K. Leffler, U.S. News & World Report The 1968 Poor People’s Campaign Martin Luther King Jr. planned ...

Ludlow, Colorado, 1914: eleven thousand mine workers had been on strike for seven months against John D. Rockefeller’s ...

Discover some of the architecture and history of Cleveland's Black churches, many of which congregations are trying to ...

Yolanda Renée King is the sole grandchild of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King—and is just as passionate. She ...