The act was passed in parliament in November 1965 - two years after civil rights activists in Bristol boycotted the Bristol ...

Eig said the “watering down” of King’s radical message is intentional, noting that King’s close friend Harry Belafonte believed the national holiday was designed to destroy King’s power — the holiday ...

Knoxville is making major road changes as part of Project Vision Zero, which has a goal of eliminating traffic fatalities by ...

On Feb. 28, the activist group People’s Union USA organized a 24-hour “economic blackout.” The group called upon people to refrain from buying anything from big corporations that have knuckled under ...

The protesters of the civil rights movement didn’t just show up. They planned for every eventuality. It’s a lesson that’s starkly relevant today.

We cannot and must not retreat to “fortress America” and with the illusion that we are safe between two oceans, nor can we ...

If Selma was the apex of the civil rights movement, we are now witnessing the apex of the anti-human rights backlash – heard in President Donald Trump’s absurd claim, echoed by acolytes like Gov.

Democracy needs defending. This generation has a rendezvous to cross its Edmund Pettus Bridge. Let them take inspiration from ...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his demonstrators stream over an Alabama River bridge at the city limits of Selma, Ala., ...