The State Superintendent of Education Ellen Weaver and two Midlands school districts are at the forefront of a Civil Rights ...

Iconic songs by Sam Cooke, Kim Weston, Public Enemy, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, Lauryn Hill, Kendrick Lamar and more depict ...

Educator and author Omo Moses was born in 1972 in Tanzania, where his parents, Janet and Bob Moses, had moved in 1969. In the ...

In 1987, journalist Juan Williams helped illuminate the Civil Rights Movement with "Eyes on the Prize," a groundbreaking book ...

Director of Peninsula Community Library, checks in with library news, including Michigan movies, volunteer opportunities and ...

Terms like “environmental racism” or “environmental justice” were not yet part of the national lexicon when the Rev. Martin ...

Three score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we now stand, delivered, “I Have a Dream,” calling for an ...

“It’s the best of times and the worst of times,” said Derrick Johnson, president of the NAACP, an organization whose members ...

By Dylan Deprey No matter the skin color, the geographic location or the religion, there are four words every American has ...

Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was one of the most prominent leaders of America's Civil Rights ...

Marchers carry signs during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom Aug. 28, 1963. During the march, the Rev. Dr. Martin ...

Between 1957 and his assassination on April 4, 1968, at age 39, Martin Luther King Jr. gave 2,500 speeches, wrote sermons and homilies and published five books. Meanwhile, the number of books written ...