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

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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 ...

He jumped in a “Whites Only” pool to draw national attention to the injustice and played a role in passing the Civil Rights Act. Meet the quiet force still teaching lessons at 87. Whenever he speaks ...

Sometimes in 1975 or 1976, Bob Dylan introduced Neil Diamond to The Band’s Robbie Robertson. All three would soon share a stage during the Band’s final documented concert at Winterland Ballroom in San ...