More than 150 people attended SUNY Oneonta's commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday, Jan. 27 featuring keynote ...
As dystopian as things seem, I recall these moments in my own personal history to confirm that King was right.” | Opinion ...
The Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail in Alabama memorializes the route taken by marchers during the Voting Ri ...
2013 – Martin Luther King Jr. Day. “We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths — that all of us are ...
Linda Lowery was just 14 years old in 1965 when she marched 54 miles from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in support of voting rights. She and several other Black teenagers were with the Rev. Martin ...
On MLK Day, whispers of memories of my time in Selma, Alabama, return. They’re dream-like recollections, faint but never forgotten, blurry with sharp edges. At dawn six years ago, I walked ...
During Selma's 60th anniversary of the voting rights ... She and several other Black teenagers were with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. that day, taking it upon themselves to demonstrate for ...
The walls of her second-floor office at East Lansing City Hall are lined with reminders of civil rights history: pivotal ...
At Syracuse University in 1965, Dr. King said "change is not self-operative; you cannot depend upon American institutions to function without prodding and pressuring." ...
This year, many of the conversations surrounding Martin Luther King, Jr. Day have involved the new movie “Selma,” about the historic marches from Selma to Montgomery in Alabama in 1965.
They came toward us. Beating us with nightsticks, trampled by horses, releasing the tear gas. I thought I was gonna die on ...