On Aug. 28, 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stood at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington and delivered one of the most important speeches in American history.

Civil rights leaders have oft used their voices as a force for good. Today, on Juneteenth 2025, we recognize some of those ...

Zohran Mamdani spoke at a rally in Harlem as he sought to build on momentum from New York City’s Democratic primary. Mamdani ...

California Rep. Lateefah Simon made sure her voice was heard loud and clear at a congressional hearing that appeared to have ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Chicago in 1966. (Charles Knoblock / AP Photo) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional offers for ...

The program at the Lincoln Memorial featured an impressive roster of speakers—including John Lewis—and closed with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Midway through his address, King abandoned his prepared ...

Russell was born in 1867 in Lurgan, Co Armagh. His family moved to Dublin when he was 11. He became a journalist, editor, ...

Fye The Catholic Messenger Bishop Silvio José Báez Ortega, O.C.D., who has risked his life advocating for justice and ...Read ...

The name, from the 19th Century, is a portmanteau of “June” and “nineteenth,” celebrated on June 19. It refers to that day in 1865 when Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas to ...

This Juneteenth we need to discard the caricatures of King that we so often see and learn from what he actually did and ...

Martin Luther King III gives a speech at the No Kings Day protest in Philadelphia Saturday afternoon.