Park residents and officials gathered today to dedicate Unity Corner, a new Martin Luther King Jr. Park addition.

When over 200 city workers were laid off in September 1938, city workers called a weeklong sanitation strike. Street battles raged in West Philadelphia when strikers blocked police-escorted trash ...

Social justice advocates are creating a queer history archive that celebrates Bayard Rustin, a major organizer in the Civil Rights Movement and key architect of the March on Washington. The ...

Civil and voting rights activists gathered in Jackson, Mississippi, to honor what would have been the 100th birthday of civil ...

Zohran Mamdani spoke at a rally in Harlem as he sought to build on momentum from New York City’s Democratic primary. Mamdani told a National Action Network rally Saturday that residents ...

The records also included documents about the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., as well as the attempted assassination of Alabama Gov. George Wallace in 1972. One ...

A Denver pastor and Civil Rights icon who helped Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. organize the 1963 March on Washington has passed away.

Martin Luther King III, a civil rights activist and the son of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, spoke to CBS News on MLK Day and Trump's inauguration.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a federal holiday, so some businesses will be closed in Connecticut. Here's what you need to know.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, Jan. 20, marks the birthday of one of the country’s most influential civil rights activists.