Friday marks 57 years since the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn. on April ...

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It erases the systemic, longstanding segregation and racial inequality endemic in Northern cities and marginalizes the robust, years-long movement in Chicago that Martin Luther King supported and ...

Together with the oceans, they are one of the two most important carbon sinks, due to their capacity to store carbon in the soil and in tree biomass. As such, promoting fast-growing trees could ...

The interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia requested the FBI unseal its surveillance records of Martin Luther King Jr. earlier than they are required to be released, arguing the ...

By Glenn Thrush Reporting from Washington The Justice Department is moving to unseal F.B.I. surveillance records of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. about two years before their court-ordered ...

Jaime King and her ex- husband Kyle Newman are currently involved in a lengthy custody battle over their two sons, James Knight, and Leo Thames. According to People, the judge declared on ...

It's Martin County's first Florida Champion Tree. St. Lucie has one champion and Indian River has seven. Size matters, especially when you are crowning a champion. A black mangrove on the Treasure ...

BEND, Ore. — A 34-year-old Seattle man died Monday after being found trapped headfirst in a tree well on Mt. Bachelor, authorities said. Benjamin Shelkey of Seattle was pronounced dead after ...