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Nashville "is a place he could draw a crowd," Black community leader Dwight Lewis said, "and he appreciated how people opened ...

Martin Luther – a pious monk and fiery orator who became “The Great Reformer” – came from a humble, pastoral corner of ...

The Masonic lodge that served as the home base for Dr. King’s activism will soon be open to visitors. It had long been considered endangered.

Playhouse on Park will present Pulitzer Prize winner Katori Hall's acclaimed play THE MOUNTAINTOP from March 4-22. The production explores the evening before Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination.

From a ceramics workshop to a Frederick Douglass musical, here are ways to celebrate Black History Month in Milwaukee through ...

The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art came alive Jan. 23 with community, vulnerability and poetry. The “Writers Give Voice: ...

In 1965, three months after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. declared from the steps of the state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, that the aim of the civil rights movement was no more and no less than ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

United States will honor and celebrate Martin Luther King Jr on Monday, January 19. The inaugural Martin Luther King Jr. Day was observed as a federal holiday in 1986. Congress later designated the ...

In a brief scene, the seminarian known as ML stands with his then girlfriend, a white woman named Betty Moitz Several years ago, near Chester, Pennsylvania, Jason Ipock’s aunt was looking to downsize ...

Martin Luther King III, the son of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, reflects on his father's legacy and what he considers today's most urgent social justice issues. On this day honoring ...