The Memphis Art Museum announced Thursday that the museum is set to open in December of next year. The $180 million facility ...

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

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The National Civil Rights Museum hosted its 34th annual Freedom Awards, recognizing trailblazers amid the Voting Rights Act ...

Marc Morial, Mark Suzman and Velma Lois Jones received the National Civil Rights Museum's Freedom Award during a ceremony in ...

A busy night in Downtown Memphis brought together the civil rights museum's Freedom Award, the Memphis Tigers and the Memphis ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — As National Guard troops arrive in Memphis, the memory of thousands of them with bayonetted rifles and tanks in 1968 is still fresh for Joe Calhoun. Back then, he marched in the ...

It’s tempting to imagine what a man might have been thinking during his last hours on earth. When that man is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his speech the day before his death was eerily prescient, ...

This week, Dr. Bernice King, the youngest daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., condemned the killing of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk, and expressed exhaustion over the sharing of an image that ...

“It will require much more than quoting my father,” MLK's daughter Bernice King reflects on Charlie Kirk's shooting and violence in the US. Bernice King, Martin Luther King Jr.’s youngest daughter, ...

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) and a NewsNation host compared conservative activist Charlie Kirk to Martin Luther King Jr. Kirk was killed on Thursday by a single shot to the neck as he spoke at Utah ...