Martin Luther King Jr. Day is just as much a Detroit holiday as it is a federal one. Created after overwhelming approval in Congress and being signed into a law by President Ronald Reagan in 1983, MLK ...

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The story of Rosa Parks has long been misrepresented and sanitized. Now it's also under threat of erasure. We correct the ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Statues of Rosa Parks and Helen Keller, pivotal figures who fought for justice and inspired change ...

What, exactly, is Rodney King’s legacy? He represented, more than any other person, America’s obsession with what I call the Cult of the Victim. Let’s face some brutal truths. The only reason King is ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Montgomery County is the epicenter of the Civil Rights Movement where, even behind bars, history has been made. The original mugshots of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., ...

The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Association of Asheville and Buncombe County’s Community Outreach Providing Empowerment (COPE) committee is proud to announce the recipients of The Rosa Parks Award.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Yellowing court records from the arrests of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and others at the dawn of the modern civil rights era are being preserved and digitized after ...