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

Stevante Clark clung to the Rev. Al Sharpton’s neck as Sharpton delivered the eulogy at the funeral of Stevante’s…

Perhaps no phrase encapsulates the sentiment of the struggle for freedom, justice and equality more than “I am a…

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• Three Describe the Night of King’s Death

There is a recipe for making a hero.

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. returned to Memphis, Tenn., on April 3, 1968, one day after the funeral of Larry…

Memphis, Tenn., exploded into chaos on March 28, 1968, as militarized police officers—armed with rifles, tear gas,…

A group of teens began a 50-mile march in Mississippi on March 31 in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. and to mark the…

Those of us who study black history have always heard rumors of an alleged relationship between Martin Luther King…

During the 1968 Memphis, Tenn., sanitation strike, there were no signs that read “I am a woman” or “I am a wife” or…

As the families of Echol Cole and Robert Walker struggled to put their loved ones to rest, a different kind of storm…

Sharecropping in the United States was slavery by another name, and many of the 1968 Memphis, Tenn., sanitation…

Robert Walker, 30, and Echol Cole, 36, woke up on Thursday, Feb. 1, 1968, and went to work for the Memphis (Tenn.)…

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.…

In the 50th year since his assassination in 1968, much has and will be said about Martin Luther King Jr., the civil…

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