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Thousands of demonstrators crowded into streets, parks, and plazas across the US, blaring anti-authoritarian chants mixed ...

Historian Rutger Bregman argues in a new book that people should aspire to “moral ambition” — a mix of idealism and ruthless pragmatism — to make the world a better place.

U.S. President marks his 79th birthday while protesters gather in more than 2,000 cities and towns across the United States ...

On foot and carrying flags, they crossed the Mason-Dixon line — the old American border between slavery and freedom — walking ...

Throughout his career, artist John Wilson was inspired to capture the faces of his community: Black people who lived in ...

The Equal Justice Initiative unveiled a statue of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Friday at the Legacy Plaza, across from the Legacy Museum. This is the first full-sized sculpture of King in Montgomery.

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There was a very special reason Stephen King attended last September’s Toronto world premiere of “The Life of Chuck,” the latest picture based on one of his stories that opens nationwide today.

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Tens of thousands of Philadelphia children get free books via the Philly Book Bank, a nonprofit that has operated out of Martin Luther King High for more than two decades. Now, the Philadelphia ...

WASHINGTON — A federal judge is weighing a request from the Trump administration to unseal records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. — files that the civil rights leader ...