A motorcade guided the way with flashing red and blue lights. Hundreds marched from the University of New Mexico to Civic ...

In a rare happening, the King holiday falls on the same day as the presidential inauguration. Activists vow to continue the ...

The June 1963 march in Detroit was, at the time, the largest civil rights demonstration in U.S. history, with 125,000 ...

Events honoring Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy and advocating for his vision of a just, nonviolent society will occur the ...

Rustin and Randolph worked again in 1948 on a successful campaign to end segregation in the U.S. military under President Harry Truman. A pacifist, Rustin protested World War II by resisting the draft ...

His name has gained wider recognition in more recent decades, but civil rights activist and organizer Bayard Rustin has long ...

The March on Washington inspired more than 250,000 people to head to our nation’s capital – and demand racial ...

In frigid temperatures, dozens of demonstrators marched Monday from outside of the Shelby County Jail to the National Civil ...

Several hundred people gathered outside Autzen Stadium in Eugene Monday morning in below freezing temperatures, for the ...

The Alabama African American Civil Rights Heritage Consortium is working to expand tourism to historic civil rights churches ...

Among other activities, rallies and marches were also planned at the Utah Capitol and at the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City on Monday to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

(Police) never attempted to de-escalate the situation or to use non-lethal force, or to use any other method that might have ...