The poet Maya Angelou remains beloved more than a decade after her death. Yet few lift up the power of her voice in the anti-rape movement.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a complex man and an incredible leader, and it is important and instructive to reflect on his ...

Singer, actor and activist Harry Belafonte will be the focus of an auction featuring nearly 400 artifacts from his seven-decade career, Julien’s Auctions and Turner Classic Movies announced Monday.

The holiday is also an appropriate introduction to Black History Month, officially designated as February. On April 4, 1968, ...

The Senate has confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as President Donald Trump’s health secretary, putting the prominent vaccine ...

[DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] In 1957, WSB interviewed King right after the Southern Christian Leadership ... of President John F. Kennedy. “I really feel that ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered senior military and Defense Department officials to draw up plans to cut 8 percent ...

After three years in Memphis, I went to Trinity Evangelical Divinity School north of Chicago. I soon noticed there were fewer ...

Malcolm X had been a public critic of King and rejected the Nobel Peace Prize winner’s direction on race relations.