Penny Wells has spoken to many people of late who, given the current political climate, have expressed pessimism, cynicism and a sense that the country is doomed. Nevertheless, a common four-letter ...

William Franklin Graham. Billy. Just Billy. November 7, 1918 — 107 years ago. On the outer edges of Charlotte, a baby. A boy.

Wikimedia Commons/Warren K. Leffler, U.S. News & World Report The 1968 Poor People’s Campaign Martin Luther King Jr. planned ...

In the repetitious cadence of Martin Luther King Jr.’s most famous speech, “I have a dream” was followed by “one day.” Those two words, “one day,” made us look to the heavens with promise, hope and ...

Martin Luther King Jr. spent much of his childhood in church and became a full-time pastor after graduate school.

Delusional hope is not always so selfishly aggressive. It can also produce dangerous passivity, as Martin Luther King Jr. warned half a century ago.

Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr., the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was the Nation’s civil rights correspondent, writing annual reports on the ...