MLK Day

A white supremacist with a gun killed Martin Luther King Jr.

It’s time for black leaders to end our Stepin Fetchit approach to racial equity. Overemphasizing our failings has…

Dear White Boys,

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

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom…

The Root is black as the rest of y’all. We can collectively name all the members of Dipset; at least half of us have…

There are two MLKs.

Martin Luther King Jr. is perhaps one of the most famous civil rights leaders in the United States. His name is…

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.…

My first real experience with the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. happened in 1980, just 12 years after his tragic…

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

In Northern Virginia, racists are commemorating the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, too—by spreading Ku Klux Klan…

Two Oklahoma State University students decided that the best way to celebrate not having classes because of Martin…

A Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration in Miami went awry after a shooting left eight people injured, WSVN reports.

Whenever a black person diverges from the path of respectability and voices an opinion contrary to the mainstream…

On Nov. 5, 2016, Joshua Beal was in Chicago for his cousin’s funeral and, while driving back from the burial, was…

The city of Biloxi got serious flak last night when it announced on its Twitter account that city offices would be…