Music played a powerful role in the Civil Rights era, providing a soundtrack for the movement and inspiring hope for change with songs like "We Shall Overcome", "A Change Is Gonna Come", "People Get ...

More than 50 years after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, the fight for civil rights continues, as advocates and ...

As we mark Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, Martha Teichner talks with some of those who were engaged from the very ...

Whatever the term, historians largely agree: The United States was born out of protest 250 years ago and has been propelled forward by raucous social movements, from abolition to civil rights, ever ...

Nearly 60 years after King’s death, civil rights leaders say Trump is forcing the movement to reinvent itself again as ...

In Hawaiʻi, where people of many differing backgrounds, races, nationalities and beliefs live and work together, Martin ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — It’s been more than six decades since the Civil Rights Movement started to change America, as a ...

Attacks on the legacy of the civil rights movement have included library purges and demands for censorship in college ...

President Trump’s comments were a blunt distillation of his administration’s racial politics, which rest on the belief that ...

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Ask most Americans to name the most powerful image of the civil rights movement, and it would probably be Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lincoln Memorial sharing his dream of a color-blind society.