MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Bob Moses says America is at “a lurching moment” for racial change, potentially as transforming as the Civil War era and the 1960s civil rights movement that he helped lead

Scores of mourners Tuesday paid their final respects to Rayshard Brooks at the Atlanta church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. used to preach, taking part in a funeral rich with historical echoes and filled with a tragic sense that Black America has been through this all too many times before.

Professor Wornie Reed describes his experiences during the historic 1963 March on Washington and why the current social unrest is making Juneteenth 2020 unlike any in recent memory.

The National Park Service has withdrawn plans to pay nearly $100,000 for a project honoring the legacy of the Black Panther Party after police groups complained to President Donald Trump.

Millions of people could descend on Washington, D.C. on Aug. 28 for a march. On that date in 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. Raj Mathai chats with a prominent Bay Area resident who was there for the historic moment.

With so much going on across the country, many fear the message of the protests is getting lost with the looting. Many are hoping the demonstrations lead to change and longtime professor and activist Dr. Clayborne Carson says it needs to happen in society and policing.

With so much going on, we wanted to get some perspective. Many fear the message of the protests is getting lost with the looting, while there are many tangible steps that can be taken. Ian Cull spoke with a Dr. Martin Luther King historian from Stanford.

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The son of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as family members of a condemned Alabama inmate, are asking the governor to to stop the execution of the man who’s convicted in the 2004 killing of three police officers but wasn’t the trigger man.

A new exhibit opening at Chicago’s DuSable Museum of African American History Friday is recreating the 1963 march on Washington D.C. using virtual reality. The experimental exhibit is coming to Chicago in hopes of placing participants right in the middle of all the action.  “The messages that happened that day resonates today just as loudly as they did then,”...

The NAACP is honoring John Lewis for his Congressional service and long history as a civil rights activist.

A Stanford historian tasked with caring for the university’s copies of Martin Luther King Jr.’s speeches, writings and other artifacts says he is worried about what will happen to the collection after he retires in August.

The decades-long controversy over a Marin County School District is coming to a head. Some members of the Dixie School District want the name changed and on Tuesday they delivered petitions to the superintendent. The school board is meeting Tuesday night to discuss what to do next. Mark Matthews reports.

Elected officials, religious leaders, music stars and Detroit sports heroes gathered Monday at a church to remember longtime U.S. Rep. John Conyers. Former President Bill Clinton, civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer were among the speakers at Conyers’ funeral at Greater Grace Temple in Detroit. They were joined by several current and former...

Alabama’s capital, a city once known as the cradle of the Confederacy and later the birthplace of the civil rights movement, elected its first African American mayor Tuesday. Probate Judge Steven Reed, 45, clasped the history-making victory to be elected the next mayor of Montgomery after defeating businessman David Woods by a decisive margin. Reed won about 67% of the...

A Campbell man is asking for his four snakes and lizard back after the reptiles were stolen over the weekend in San Jose.

Students at Pittsburg’s Martin Luther King Jr. Junior High School will march Friday in the school’s 3rd annual Million Father March, school officials said.