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Recently, on May 31, 2025, I attended a community celebration for the sculpture unveiling ceremony honoring Dr. Martin Luther ...
Almost four years after his “I Have a Dream” speech, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. arrived at a tent-in demonstration in DuPage County.
Photo by Savion Washington/Getty ImagesA documentary is in the works about the role Stevie Wonder played in helping to make ...
Time Studios and Stevie Wonder’s Eyes ‘n’ Sound are partnering to produce a feature doc chronicling the cultural, political, ...
Block parties like this one hosted by Restored Church at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park (formerly Coal Street Park) ...
The US cannot claim innocence – political violence shaped its past and defines its present.
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"We've entered into this especially scary time in the country where it feels the sort of norms and rhetoric and rules that would tamp down on violence have been lifted," says Matt Dallek, a political ...
Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy might beg to differ. Teddy Roosevelt, Gerald Ford and Ronald ...
The 96-foot-tall obelisk dedicated to the 25th president, assassinated in Buffalo in 1901, was extensively defaced sometime between Friday night and Saturday morning.
Those selected would receive up to $200,000 to create one of the 250 sculptures, which will be paid for in part with canceled grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
More than half a century after his death, conspiracy theories about the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination continue to circulate online.
Paradoxically, a right-wing court decision helped bring universities back full circle to the economic approach to affirmative action backed by Martin Luther King Jr. and William O. Douglas.