A lieutenant to Martin Luther King Jr. and a fellow preacher, he played a vital role in organizing voting-rights protests in ...

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 across the ...

The Rev. Jesse L. Douglas, a close aide of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., died in 2021, he is remembered as one of King's most trusted aides.

HARLEM (WABC) -- At Frederick Douglass Academy in Harlem, they're studying the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his famous march for the right to vote, thanks to a program called "Selma in Schools", a ...

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 ...

SEABROOK ISLAND — Six decades ago, a protest march attempting to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., became a flashpoint in the Civil Rights Movement. Bloody Sunday, as the event became ...

The plan we were pondering — as students at Ripon College 60 years ago this spring — seemed crazy at first. But it was the 1960s, and we were young and brimming with the idealism of the age. So, we ...

Lionel Richie says his parents stopped him from marching with Martin Luther King Jr. The singer recalled longing to be part ...

A Baltimore museum was sponsoring a "Dare to Dream Day," San Francisco was having a march and parade, and Houston was holding a job fair as big cities, small towns, states and institutions across ...