The Alabama city that produced five Hall of Famers celebrates its baseball heritage with new statues. The moment was made ...

Louis Menand reviews “Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America,” by Sam Tanenhaus.

Bedford County, VA (May 6, 2025) – Emergency responders rushed to the scene of a serious four-vehicle accident Monday afternoon that left several individuals injured, including three people who were ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street now has a new Indiana State historical marker, commemorating the Indianapolis Phyllis Wheatley YWCA. Named after the first published African American poet, the ...

A person walks past the historic Clayborn Temple on April 3, 2018, in Memphis, Tennessee. BrendanSmialowski/AFP via Getty Images What To Know. Memphis firefighters said the blaze was reported ...

1. Martin Luther King Jr. Born in 1929 in Atlanta, Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and theologian who became the moral compass of the Civil Rights Movement.His ideology was rooted in ...

Symbolic architecture The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington stands at “1964 Independence Avenue SW”—an address deliberately chosen to commemorate the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

This week, we commemorate the anniversary of the 1968 assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., one of the most iconic figures in American history, known for his tireless fight against ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has been dead almost 60 years, but his philosophy — his lifelong commitment to "nonviolent direction action" to effect political change — remains relevant as a ...

The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis is commemorating the 57th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. This year's theme, "How Long, Not Long," is taken from King's famous ...

I know it’s kind of hard to read because the files are old. It says Dr Martin Luther King Jr. was the target of an intensive campaign by the FBI to neutralize him as an effective civil rights ...

There is often the risk of getting carried away by the eloquence of the Reverend (Dr.) Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK), the African-American civil rights Baptist Minister, so much that a significant ...