Today's challenges — from educational inequality and economic disparity, to voter suppression and police violence — demand that we engage with King's full legacy, not just the portions that we’re comfortable with,

It was 1963 when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered "I Have a Dream," one of the most famous speeches in American history ... recalls most of his history lessons in school being about World War I and World War II, but King was mentioned as an important ...

Three graduate fellows at the University at Buffalo’s Center for K-12 Black History and Racial Literacy Education have curated the following materials to empower educators to engage with Black history and racial literacy.

President Trump has announced plans to release classified documents on high-profile assassinations, including that of civil-rights icon Martin Luther King.

He talked of a new Manifest Destiny and a “Golden Age." He invoked the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. An honor guard appeared with tricorn hats, fifes and drums — all traditional Revolutionary War iconography.

Suzette Hackney talked with Martin Luther King III about the convergence of Inauguration Day with the day of service that honors his father.

The resonance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final speech, delivered on the eve of his assassination in Memphis, reverberates through

In his condemnation of the U.S. war on the people of Vietnam, Martin Luther King Jr.’s stance was not a pacifist one. King was not necessarily anti-war so

What happened to Black Lives Matter? In December, New York Attorney General Letitia James released multiple videos of state corrections officers beating a handcuffed prisoner, Robert Brooks, at the Marcy Correctional Facility in upstate New York on the night of Dec.

Washington shifts towards India; Church Committee established into CIA, FBI crimes; Truman backs development of H-bomb; dogsleds deliver diphtheria antitoxins in Alaska.

Trump has ordered declassifying of documents regarding the JFK assassination and more. Schumer says do UFOs next

At Syracuse University in 1965, Dr. King said "change is not self-operative; you cannot depend upon American institutions to function without prodding and pressuring."