The National Civil Rights Museum will host a ceremony to commemorate the 57th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s ...

Under the shade of a tree on Florida International University’s campus, historian and activist Marvin Dunn led a crowd of ...

Broadway's "Purpose," by Tony-winning playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, tackles the legacy of the civil rights movement through one eventful snowy night.

Democratic Sen. Cory Booker ended his record-setting speech the same way he began it, more than 25 hours earlier: by invoking ...

Dr Martin Luther King Jr, a pivotal leader in the American Civil Rights Movement, was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. His ...

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins follows the award-winning "Appropriate" with another rousing family showdown in this rousing drama.

That’s why a federal court of appeals in Chicago recently reinstated a freedom of speech lawsuit filed by a University of Illinois-Chicago law professor who was punished — actually, dragged through ...

As he did in last year's speech to the NAACP, Obama said Monday that "we have more work to do" even after the gains made from the struggles of the older civil rights leaders. Americans must demand ...

Jacobs-Jenkins’ play — which was commissioned nearly a decade ago by The Steppenwolf Theatre Company and is at the very least inspired by, if not necessarily loosely based on, Jesse Jackson and ...

The academic and activist inspired generations of people to challenge corporate power and support a media reform movement ...

Taken together, those two factors – the change in US domestic politics and the collapse of the multilateral rounds – would ...