Sixty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally protesting housing discrimination and segregated schools in ...

Martin Luther King III and Imari Paris Jeffries of Embrace Boston reflected on the rally's legacy in a fireside chat ...

The legendary attorney who was once deemed the “chief counsel” of the Civil Rights Movement by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has been honored with a statue outside the Alabama State Bar Association ...

Local organizers plan to mark MLK Jr.'s historic 1965 Freedom Rally in Boston by holding a march of their own.

The King Center and voting rights advocacy group Black Voters Matter are uniting to influence a new generation of activists.

Arielle Gray's grandfather — then a teenager — joined the march to the Common led by King drawing attention to the racial ...

A newly discovered note from CT’s first editor, Carl Henry, shows how King’s Birmingham Jail missive shifted a white pastor’s ...

“A nation can be considered great when it defends liberty as Lincoln did, when it fosters a culture which enables people to ...

Meet 21 civil rights activists—past and present—whose bold leadership reshaped history and continues to inspire justice movements today.

Ray finally agrees to plead guilty. James Earl Ray pleads guilty to killing Martin Luther King, Jr. and is sentenced to 99 years in Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Tennessee. March 13 ...

South Bend welcomes the new Martin Luther King Jr. Center on the west side with a march to honor the civil rights leader slain on this day in 1968.