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 ...

Note: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth home is also on-site ... The Visitor Center, Fire Station No. 6, Freedom Hall and Ebenezer Baptist Church are open daily (excluding January 1, Thanksgiving ...

Art Broady’s free presentation, "The Dream … We Almost Never Heard," will be at noon Sunday, March 16, at First ...

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

There is no separate black path to power and fulfillment that does not intersect white roots.” While honoring Black History ...

This month marks the 60th anniversary of the historic Selma to Montgomery march, a pivotal moment in the fight for voting ...

Former City Councilor Ivory Vann didn’t have to have his arm twisted to dress up. Vann was one of many participants in the Third Annual International Women’s Fashion Show on Saturday at the Dr. Martin ...

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.

In 1966, Simone wrote and performed “Four Women,” a musical portrait of different stereotyped Black women who were exploited ...

Hope College staff members were honored for service anniversaries during a reception on Tuesday, March 11, at the Jack H.

LERONE MARTIN: He's known as the Happy Am I preacher, so he has this kind of charisma, smiling, very happy. My name is Dr. Lerone Martin, and I am the director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Research ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 12, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Weather records (from the National ...