Within months of its final episode in June 1963 — following the March on Washington, D.C., in August led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the November assassination of President John F ...

Then-Washington Post journalist Juan Williams wrote the book that accompanied the series. Williams in 1987 : One of the ironies of writing this book at this time is that it hasn’t been done before.

Historian Jeanne Theoharis’s new book, King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South, is a major reexamination of the civil rights leader that offers a ...

During Sunday’s George Washington University commencement, alongside the thousands of undergraduate and graduate students receiving degrees, a D.C. legend was also honored. Eleanor Holmes Norton ...

During Sunday's George Washington University commencement, alongside the thousands of undergraduate and graduate students receiving degrees, a D.C. legend was also honored. Eleanor Holmes Norton ...

The slight was taken, though, with Malcolm dismissing the August 1963 event the 'Farce on Washington'. Despite the rhetoric, Joseph thinks Malcolm was still learning much from King's activities.

And so it really tells this huge story – Lyndon Johnson’s in this, the vice president for most of the year – of how people are debating this idea of freedom. And even the big set pieces like the March ...

In 1963, US President John F Kennedy sent a squadron of fighter jets to protect Saudi Arabia from attacks by Yemen during its civil war. Washington and Riyadh have long shared similar concerns about ...

In an increasingly hostile political environment, the Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice in Princeton refuses to stay quiet. Harnessing values of intersectionality and queer joy, a network of ...

05:14 PM EDT Trump believes Carney wants to meet 'to make a deal. President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney seem to be on different pages about their meeting tomorrow.

Throughout the 1960s, Parks participated in several key events, including the 1963 March on Washington, where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, and the marches from ...