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 ...

Civil rights are not reversible. Once the ratchet of rights has been opened, they cannot tighten. This was the argument of Martin Luther King, Jr, who stated numerous times, including after the famous ...

The right to be served hasn't always been a right for all Americans. Sixty-four years ago, a teacher and 70 others protested ...

Over the years, our country’s tragedies and triumphs have been written in Jesse Jackson’s determined brow, silent tears and his greying head bowed in prayer.

You might remember him as “Berkeley’s Waving Man.” That’s what most people called him, although others called him Charley ...