Nicaragua has become one of the 20 most dangerous countries in the world for Christians, according to the International ...

Bruised and bloodied while traveling through the South in 1961, he challenged segregation on interstate buses and in terminal waiting rooms.

It’s been almost 60 years since the Civil Rights Movement and the remnants that it left on the world as whole and the ...

Dooky Chase's Restaurant has revealed its long-awaited upstairs dining room. Dooky Chase’s Restaurant, one of New Orleans' ...

Amb. Andrew Young is among the speakers and ceremonial figures for the funeral of President Jimmy Carter in Washington.

MLK's daughter spoke to Newsweek about the different trajectories of two Georgia natives, and how they aligned in the fight for ciivl rights.

Charles Person, known as the youngest of the original 13 Freedom Riders, has died at 82. He passed away peacefully at his ...

The Gideon vs. Wainwright Historical Marker in Panama City celebrates a landmark 1963 Supreme Court ruling. ©Dick Demarsico ...

Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk-music trio whose impassioned ...

Nearly 70 years ago, 14-year-old Emmett Till was brutally tortured, murdered and disposed of in a river after whistling at a ...

Early US elites drafted the Constitution to check democratic uprisings that threatened the power of the ruling class. The ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday that honors the legacy of the American civil rights icon, is this month. Here's what you should know.