Rosa Parks gave the US civil rights movement a huge boost and inspired Martin Luther King Jr.

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No other president, Republican or Democrat, has ever used a Black History Month proclamation for such crass self-promotion.” ...

On the first day of Black History Month, MSNBC's Rev. Al Sharpton convenes a special Civil Rights Summit where leaders in the ...

On Sunday, Jan. 19, the Kennedy Center put on its annual commemoration and remembrance concert in honor of the Rev. Martin ...

Museum leaders say this recognition has been years in the making “Martin Luther King Jr. said … That was the start of the modern-day civil rights movement,” said Skip Alston, International ...

Martin Luther King III called on those who oppose Trump to stay actively involved in politics, but insisted that civility ...

January 30 is Martrys’ Day in India. In 1948, as Mahatma Gandhi emerged for his evening prayers at New Delhi’s Birla House, ...

We have systematically oppressed a group of people for 400 years — from the slave ships of 1619 to the Three-Fifths ...

you'll find engaging exhibits on the civil rights movement and the D.R.E.A.M. Gallery, featuring additional exhibits. Next door to Ebenezer Baptist Church stands the Martin Luther King ...