Look at those beautiful faces. Those are the children who lived in Birmingham, Ala., in 1963. Because this picture was…

Racist Republican Congressman Steve King, no doubt perturbed by the national holiday honoring a black man whose…

This morning started out like any other day. I hopped up out my bed, turned my swag on, looked myself in the mirror and…

On Saturday, the funeral for civil rights activist Ovide Duncantell was held at Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church in…

More than 6,000 people have signed a petition in Buffalo, N.Y., that calls for a statue honoring Martin Luther King Jr.…

It’s no secret that I live in Washington, D.C. While I’ve had a love-hate relationship with this city for various…

I had just returned to New York City from delivering the 2018 Trout Lectures at Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus,…

Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) is a living legend of the civil rights movement and we get to take selfies with him. We can…

On April 26 of this year, the Equal Justice Initiative will open both a memorial and museum in Montgomery, Ala.,…

As “one of the real racists,” I admit that I have intentionally omitted one of the most underappreciated groups of…

If you had to make a list of the top 10 people whose opinions on Martin Luther King Jr. you could have gone the rest of…

When Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel, the news shocked…

There is a recipe for making a hero.

After speaking to a rapt crowd on March 18, 1968, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. returned to Memphis, Tenn., as…

In front of a rapt audience at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, Malcolm X’s…

“Everything you thought you knew about Martin Luther King Jr. is wrong,” says Trey Ellis, producer of the upcoming HBO…

Oprah Winfrey may rule out a 2020 run to end President Donald Trump’s reign of terror over this country, but Cory…

In November, President Donald Trump’s administration released declassified FBI documents on President John F. Kennedy’s…

In Memphis, Tenn., 1968, 1,300 sanitation workers braved the bitter cold to engage in a revolutionary 65-day action to…

Updated Monday, Jan. 1, 2018, 5:04 p.m. EST: Shortly after this post went live, Newsweek issued an apology to Bernice…