Feb. 20—Talk of a memorial in Portland to honor iconic civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. has been ongoing for decades. Even after repeated efforts, and a $50,000 budget, the city still ...

Tennessee lawmakers for the first time honored the work of 15 enslaved men rented by the State of Tennessee in the 1800s to ...

Edward Quao, Director of the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park ... Quao disclosed that Martin Luther King Jr., the renowned social activist and leader of the U.S. civil rights movement, was among ...

Laughlin Memorial Chapel in Wheeling held a program ... A mural was painted of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by local artist Vondell Bell inside the chapel's learning room. "I think it’s an ...

Art Broady’s free presentation, "The Dream … We Almost Never Heard," will be at noon Sunday, March 16, at First ...

For the past seven years on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, children from a Washington, D.C., elementary school have climbed the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to proclaim "I have a dream," just as Dr ...

The fact that slaves were sold in St. Augustine isn't in dispute; in 1827, the young New England writer Ralph Waldo Emerson passed through and saw a slave auction in full swing. When King came in 1964 ...

The Savannah Police have arrested a 21-year-old and charged him with murder tied to a fatal shooting near Martin Luther King ...

A vigil at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park in downtown Rochester honored Sam Nordquist, the transgender man who was tortured and killed in Ontario County.

Between the 16th and 19th centuries, more than 12 million Africans were captured from their homes and forced into slavery as part of the transatlantic slave trade.Later this month, those victims will ...

Jonathan Eig, speaking Thursday at the National Writers Series, won a Pulitzer for 'King: A Life.' Now, comes a look at ...

The victim was transported to Memorial Health University Medical ... and the 1800 block of Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard," said Johnson. "While these incidents appear unrelated and not random ...