Media outlets that praised Martin Luther King Jr.'s work in the South treated Northern segregation differently.

On April 16, 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote "Letter from Birmingham Jail" while imprisoned in Alabama for ...

Yet King understood that racism, segregation, and police brutality were a national condition, not a regional issue. Many of his contemporaries refused to see this. While many Northern politicians and ...

Bernice King remembers when her father moved their family in 1966 to a third-floor walk-up without heat in Chicago. Martin ...

April 23 marks the 60th anniversary of the Freedom Rally on Boston Common, led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In what became the first major Civil Rights march in the Northeast, more than 20,000 gather ...

Even newspapers that recognized and reported on Southern segregation as an obvious wrong had trouble ... even when it was ...

Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr will be released in the coming days, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said Thursday. President Donald Trump signed an executive ...