Jackson's call to move the 1993 Super Bowl over the lack of an MLK Day holiday showed that racism has a cost. It also inspired others to activism.

A former aide to Martin Luther King Jr., he launched two historic presidential campaigns while spreading a message of hope and resilience: “I am — somebody.” ...

Howard Fuller burst onto the national stage in 1990 as a political organizer when he joined forces with the late state ...

In her new book, the CBS News journalist highlights women who pushed America to live up to its founding promises of liberty, equality, and the pursuit of happiness for all.

First known as the wife of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., she later became an avid proselytizer for his vision of peace ...

Civil rights leader J.T. Johnson didn't know he had dyslexia and hid his illiteracy. Now with the help of an AI program, he's ...

It was the summer of 1966. I completed my first year at Bethany Theological Seminary in affluent Oak Brook, Illinois.

Rev. Jesse Jackson, a pivotal civil rights leader who fought alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and ran for president, has ...

ATLANTA — The legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is continuing in Atlanta as the restoration of the building where he had an office during the civil rights movement is complete. When Ed Bowen ...

A mix of history and fantasy forms the plot of a play about the last night of Dr. Martin Luther King's life. That play comes to the stage of Theatre Tallahassee starting this week. It's the night of ...

The news that back in the United States, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr had been assassinated. There was no segregation in the platoon. In Penns' group of friends, he counted four Puerto Ricans he recalled ...

Al Letson revisits a story about civil rights activist Bayard Rustin that he produced 16 years ago for Black History Month.