At Shifa hospital in the Gaza Strip, nothing is sterilized, so Dr. Jamal Salha and other surgeons wash their instruments in soap. Infections are rampant. The stench of medical waste is overwhelming.

When 1965 began, federal voting rights legislation was far from the minds of most in Washington. After all, Congress had just ...

Today is the 64th anniversary of the arrest of Freedom Rider Byron Baer, a longtime New Jersey legislator charged with ...

July 17 marked the fifth anniversary of the passing of Rep. John Lewis. To honor this legend of the Civil Rights movement, ...

The Trump administration pushed 240,000-plus pages of FBI records on Martin Luther King Jr. into the open, framing it as “unprecedented” transparency. The files, sealed since 1977 under a court order, ...

The enduring legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has long existed as a powerful, yet pliant, force in American public life. Even during his early rise, political figures understood the ...

Bernice King, the youngest daughter of the late Martin Luther King Jr., has pointedly implored President Donald Trump to release the Jeffrey Epstein case files after the Trump administration ...

Hosea Williams, Jesse Jackson, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy stand on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., on April 3, 1968, the day before King was shot ...

The federal government released over 200,000 pages of documents on the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., a move ordered by President Trump.

US President Donald Trump's administration has released a trove of records on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, including FBI surveillance files on the civil rights leader.

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks on the telephone after encountering a white mob protesting against the Freedom Riders in Montgomery, Ala., on May 26, 1961. On Monday, the Trump ...

People walk by the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, ahead of the presidential inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, in Washington, January 16.