Nobel Peace Prize awardee Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, triggering riots across the US. His death shook ...

The truth of the matter is that white Americans, after having nearly wiped out all the Native Americans, never quite got over the outcome of the Civil War, which made it illegal for one person to own ...

Remember Rosa Parks? She took a stand to bring attention to racism and discrimination against black Americans by sitting at ...

Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., made history this year: Thanks to a lawsuit, the church ...

Yet King understood that racism, segregation, and police brutality were a national condition, not a regional issue. Many of ...

Media outlets that praised Martin Luther King Jr.'s work in the South treated Northern segregation differently.

Why don’t we know this? In many ways, “southernizing” King is comfortable, cordoning off the movement in the past to settled issues like bus segregation. Yet King understood that racism ...

They covered Dr. King differently in his support of Southern movements—Birmingham in 1963 and St. Augustine in 1964—than his support of movements against housing segregation, school ...

When Des Moines native Edgar Rosa decided to be a producer for the new film "Bob Trevino Likes It" he thought of how the story related to his own experience of finding "chosen family." The Des ...

Officers are keeping vulnerable prisoners in segregation units at HMP Frankland in Co Durham to separate them from Islamic extremists, the Times reports. The prison, one of the highest-security ...

Should every student be encouraged to pursue a four-year degree after high school? Teenagers weigh in. By The Learning Network The Trump administration has targeted at least nine foreign pro ...