Canton held its inaugural commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1964 visit, featuring his cousin Joel King.

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Today, 61 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous Alabama speech, "How Long, Not Long," reminding us that ...

Despite not working in television, the civil rights leader helped make sure the second season of The Original Series was at least as good as the first.

By George Cassidy Payne For more than a decade, troubling claims about César Chávez’s sexual abuse were already documented. Miriam Pawel’s 2014 biography, The Crusades of César Chávez, explored both ...

For more than a decade, troubling claims about César Chávez’s sexual abuse were already documented. Miriam Pawel’s 2014 biography, The Crusades of César ...

James Baldwin, like many American novelists before him, F. Scott Fitzgerald and John Dos Passos included, spent his formative ...

Chavez became the face of Latino civil and labor rights in the media and in history books. But scholars and activists are ...

The deeply disturbing news, more than 30 years after his death, that American civil rights hero and Arizona icon Cesar Chavez now stands accused of sexual abuse and assault, including by at least two ...

One of the most revered figures in American history can no longer be called heroic. But the movement he led can be.

Mark Oppenheimer is an unabashed Judy Blume fan. He admits that Blume’s language could be more vivid and her plots less ...