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 ...

The required 38 states have approved the Equal Rights Amendment. So why isn't it in the Constitution? Bureaucracy. President ...

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

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

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

Charles Person, who has died aged 82, was the youngest of the civil rights activists – seven black and six white Americans – ...

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

Sensible Americans consider the Equal Rights Amendment a long-dead relic, but its supporters, incredibly, are still trying to ...

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

Bill Clinton and Barack Obama previously took presidential oaths of office on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. However, in both ...

Here’s what to know about Martin Luther King Jr., why we celebrate his impact each year and when MLK Day is in 2025.