Martin Luther King Jr.

U.S. evangelicals draw battle lines against same-sex marriage

With the U.S. Supreme Court expected to rule by the end of the month on whether same-sex marriage is...

Jun 21, 2015 06:29 PM EDT

Malcolm X's legacy survives 50 years after his assassination

The struggle for racial equality that Malcolm X helped define in the 1960s has picked up fresh momen...

Feb 22, 2015 06:47 AM EST

One suit dropped, one remains in dispute between MLK's children

One of two lawsuits involving the children of the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. ha...

Jan 24, 2015 08:03 PM EST

U.S. tributes, protests mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Tributes to civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. were held across the United States on Monday,...

Jan 20, 2015 02:54 AM EST

'Friendship Nine' to be cleared of civil rights sit-in crimes

Fifty-four years after nine young black men became the first U.S. civil rights protesters to serve j...

Jan 19, 2015 12:09 AM EST

Civil Rights Activist Dorothy Wright Receives a Google Doodle

Dorothy Height, an icon for civil rights as well as women's rights, was celebrated with a Google doo...

Mar 25, 2014 09:49 AM EDT