Sixty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally protesting housing discrimination and segregated schools in ...

Organizers, including Embrace Boston, Everyone250 and the city of Boston, said the rally "honors a pivotal moment in history, reflecting on the progress made and acknowledging the ongoing challenges ...

Arielle Gray's grandfather — then a teenager — joined the march to the Common led by King drawing attention to the racial ...

Local organizers plan to mark MLK Jr.'s historic 1965 Freedom Rally in Boston by holding a march of their own.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Legendary attorney Fred Gray — once deemed the “chief counsel” of the Civil Rights Movement by the ...

“A nation can be considered great when it defends liberty as Lincoln did, when it fosters a culture which enables people to ...

The King Center and voting rights advocacy group Black Voters Matter are uniting to influence a new generation of activists.

In a significant act for the head of the Catholic Church, Francis concluded by speaking of non-Catholics who have inspired him: Martin Luther King Jr., Desmond Tutu and Mahatma Gandhi. In his last ...

Cook’s language evokes the famed quote from his personal hero, civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr, who said: “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” ...

among them heroic figures like Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr. and more controversial ones such as Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning. The portraits, based on blown-up photographs ...