OPINION: So often, when weaponizing MLK's words against Black people, white people like to lecture us about "what he died for" as if his death was voluntary. It was not. On this day, 55 years ago, the ...

Penningroth is a professor of law and history at the University of California, Berkeley. Recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and author of the award-winning The Claims of Kinfolk, he lives in ...

In the ’60s, white evangelicals condemned Martin Luther King Jr. In the ’80s, we lauded a convenient, hagiographic version of his life. How should we remember him now? As the white editors of ...

MIAMI - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil rights leader and an American hero. Almost every American adult (95%) believes he was an important figure in US history, according to a CBS News poll.

The president and vice president will host the celebration on Monday, Aug. 28, the anniversary of the historic event where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech.

On this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, January 15, 2024, when the most famous American Civil Rights leader in history would have turned 95, he would surely have celebrated the progress that has been ...