The Martin Luther King People’s Convention for Justice And Resistance will take place Saturday, April 26, 2025, 8:30am to ...

Sixty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally protesting housing discrimination and segregated schools in ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the third Monday in January, became federally recognized in 1983 when President Ronald Reagan signed it into law.

Arielle Gray's grandfather — then a teenager — joined the march to the Common led by King drawing attention to the racial ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a U.S. holiday and national day of service. It took a long time for the country to get there It was first proposed four days after King's 1968 assassination outside a ...

Lawrence Phillips, founder and CEO of Green Book Global Walk in the footsteps of one of history's most important figures with a visit to the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park.

Civil rights activists and clergy launch a movement in solidarity with a national boycott of Target, focusing on economic ...

A 10,000-person rally will be held on the Boston Common Saturday to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1965 Freedom Rally. Embrace Boston, in collaboration with Everyone250 and the City of Boston ...

How did Earth Day start? Who founded Earth Day? Earth Day is the third-newest federal holiday in the U.S., after Martin Luther King Jr. Day (recognized in 1983) and Juneteenth (recognized in 2021).

He revealed his political cowardice and moral bankruptcy by doing nothing with the power Black voters handed him. The ...