He was instrumental in establishing Martin Luther King Jr. Day, also known as Civil Rights Day ... Stewart Sr. for 48 years of leadership and service to First Institutional Baptist Church," Phoenix ...

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.

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

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

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

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

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

(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 ...

Southern Christian Leadership Conference A curated collection of links The Record What are records? Since 2014, The Marshall Project has been ... Martin Luther King Jr. Are we missing a record? Tell ...

WSFS Bank, the primary subsidiary of WSFS Financial Corporation, announced today current WSFS Chairman, President, and CEO, Rodger Levenson, joins former WSFS Chairman, President, and CEO, Mark ...

The statement is signed by: The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human ...

CONWAY, Ark. – Hundreds of boys and girls, all in orange, listened to the message of ending gun violence presented by the Martin Luther King Jr. Commission on Friday. The commission engaged with young ...