The fight for American civil rights spanned decades, cities and states, from Topeka, Kansas to Memphis, Tennessee and from ...

In Britain today, we can all feel a sense of division tugging away at the seams of our society. Some people would have us ...

Statues of Rosa Parks and Helen Keller will be unveiled Friday on the grounds of the Alabama Capitol. The monuments honoring ...

Eight years after Parks’ death, on February 27, 2013, a statue of Parks was installed inside the U.S. Capitol in Washington.

On the morning of 14 October 1964, Martin Luther King, sleeping in an Atlanta hospital room after checking in for a rest, was awakened by a phone call from his wife, Coretta Scott King, telling him ...

Lionel Richie once passed up on an opportunity to march alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other Freedom Fighters. During a recent interview with The Guardian about his new memoir, “Truly,” the ...

Richie opens up about his experience growing up during the civil rights movement in his new memoir Lloyd Bishop/NBC via Getty; Bettmann Archive/Getty Lionel Richie almost marched with Martin Luther ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — All lanes of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive are closed between Alamance Church Road and the I-40 westbound exit after a vehicle crash, city officials said. No injuries have been ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) – All lanes of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive are closed between Alamance Church Road and I-40, as well as the I-40 westbound exit to Martin Luther King Jr Drive after a crash, ...

The government shutdown has shuttered Atlanta’s Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park. The partial shutdown of the federal government has led to the closure of one of Atlanta’s most ...

'I was longing to be part of it. And my parents kept telling me it was dangerous,' said Richie. Former Commodores singer Lionel Richie recently revealed that, while growing up in Alabama, he had an ...

The vandalism did not appear to have been politically motivated, according to the Washington State Patrol, which said that a suspect was in custody. By Neil Vigdor An intruder broke into Washington ...