This Juneteenth we need to discard the caricatures of King that we so often see and learn from what he actually did and ...

The hearing on Wednesday came through a lawsuit brought by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the civil rights organization based in Atlanta associated with Dr. King, which has sued to ...

The journey from local observance to national holiday was a lengthy one, spanning over a century-and-a-half of American ...

A recent Columbia resident shares some family history, and a celebration committee member shares why Juneteenth is important.

Resisting the rain and the heat, 3,000 people lived in Resurrection City, on the Washington Mall, for weeks, to demand an end to poverty. This is episode 51 of Stories of Resistance.

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which King led, is opposed to unsealing any of the records for privacy reasons. The organization’s lawyers said King’s relatives also want to keep ...

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which King led, is opposed to unsealing any of the records for privacy reasons. The organization’s lawyers said King’s relatives also want to keep ...

(THE CONVERSATION) On March 7, 1965, Alabama state troopers beat and gassed John Lewis and hundreds of marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. TV reporters and photographers were there ...

Beginning on Juneteenth, the sole copy of the federal orders that freed enslaved Black people in Texas will be on display in ...

The hearing was prompted by a lawsuit filed by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a civil rights organization based in King’s native Atlanta, Georgia, which seeks to halt the ...

During a talk, Young reflected on his friendship with Martin Luther King Jr. and an important lesson he learned early in life ...