The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against Fayette County, Tennessee, alleging its Board of County Commissioners violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The board's ...

Between 1957 and his assassination on April 4, 1968, at age 39, Martin Luther King Jr. gave 2,500 speeches, wrote sermons and ...

Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders and the Arkansas Martin Luther King Jr. Commission hosted its annual 'Interfaith Prayer Breakfast' event at the Governor's Mansi ...

Martin Luther King was a prominent activist in the civil rights movement that started in America in the year 1955, this ...

This year marks six decades since the passing of seminal legislation in U.S. history — Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the ...

Martin Luther King Jr. helped lead the Civil Rights Movement. Read about his “I Have a Dream” speech, quotes, holiday, kids, ...

On Tuesday, January 7, 2025—just its second day of the session—the Idaho legislature sent a joint House and Senate petition ...

When we think of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, many iconic figures come to mind: Martin Luther King Jr., ...

Both hailed as a civil rights leader who achieved his ends by nonviolent means and vilified as a traitor to the cause of ...

The former special counsel Jack Smith stood behind his prosecution of President-elect Donald J. Trump in a report released early Tuesday.

In 1957, nine Black students enrolled at Little ... The Little Rock Nine's historic and brave acts helped to spur the civil rights movement and brought national attention to the U.S.'s racist ...