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Through archival footage, the documentary provides an overview of Dr. Martin Luther King's contributions to the civil rights movement. In the opening scene, the narrator describes Rosa Parks' refusal ...
Under the leadership of executive director Zoe Kahr ’06, the Memphis Art Museum is moving into a striking new building under ...
People this famous would never let you anywhere near their houses when they were alive, but now you can walk right inside!
The Arkansas Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission held a Nonviolence Youth Summit in West Memphis on Saturday.
Recently, on May 31, 2025, I attended a community celebration for the sculpture unveiling ceremony honoring Dr. Martin Luther ...
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 ...
The answer is—and it’s not going to be a pleasant answer—the answer is that the violence ends if it boils over into a ...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably ... influence it can have on the direction of our society. As a nonpartisan, history museum, the National Civil Rights ...
Though none of the founding fathers of this city ever actually called Memphis home, their descendants certainly did.