American Baptist minister and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr (1929 - 1968, seated, centre-right) gives a press conference regarding an agreement reached on a 'limited desegregation plan' ...

A Virginia teacher is on paid leave after her Martin Luther King Jr. Day exercise sent a 6-year-old black boy home in tears. Vicki Chen was trying to teach a lesson about discrimination to her first ...

Tomorrow is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and rather than attempt to capture the importance of his work in this small space, we focus on something briefly mentioned in a moving commemoration Friday ...

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After posting “Reversing Past Mistakes at MLK Park” this past weekend, I received an email from Jim Mendola, Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy (BOPC) volunteer archivist and historian. Jim was kind ...

CHESTER – Students at Widener Partnership Charter School got a two-fold lesson in American history and supply chain management Friday morning when UPS employees visited for a Martin Luther King Day of ...