Eig said the “watering down” of King’s radical message is intentional, noting that King’s close friend Harry Belafonte believed the national holiday was designed to destroy King’s power — the holiday ...

Discover the rich history and current impact of Chuck Levin's Washington Music Center, a family business that has shaped the ...

Art Broady’s free presentation, "The Dream … We Almost Never Heard," will be at noon Sunday, March 16, at First ...

What are the best events? How do we get there? What should we do with kids? Where can we see cherry blossoms besides the ...

The protesters of the civil rights movement didn’t just show up. They planned for every eventuality. It’s a lesson that’s starkly relevant today.

Ms. Shaheen’s retirement will set off a high-stakes fight for an open seat in a state where she has been a leading political ...

Discover the trailblazing efforts of Carole Simpson, Dorothy Gilliam, Belva Davis, and Melba Tolliver, who broke barriers in ...

Narratives about the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and ’60s often highlight the influence of the Black church.

President Donald Trump ’s nominee for United States Attorney for the District of Columbia has made a string of racist and ...

It’s 100 years since the civil rights activist was born. Follow in his footsteps on a tour of Boston’s suburbs, where his ...

We Are Also in Bondage Here: Black Women in the Washington Civil Rights Movement Thursday March 13, 2025 at 6 pm via Zoom REGISTER HERE In the 1960s, Freddie Mae Gautier wrote to Martin Luther King Jr ...

A year later, in the spring of 1965, King sent out a call to white college students from the North like me and others at Ripon College “to stand up” and come to Selma, Alabama, for a five-day march to ...