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Sixty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally protesting housing discrimination and segregated schools in ...
As a Black teenager growing up in Boston, Wayne Lucas vividly remembers joining some 20,000 people to hear the Rev. Martin ...
President Trump’s Executive Order 14176 has declassified records tied to the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and Dr. Martin ...
CHICAGO – This weekend marks 57 years since Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. On Saturday, a Rainbow PUSH Coalition event was held to honor his life and legacy.
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Friday marked the 57th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The civil rights icon spent time in Chicago fighting for racial and economic equality for ...
On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg talks to Jeanne Theoharis about her new book, King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life of ...
The crash happened on Tuesday at about 6:04 p.m. at the bus stop on 87th Street and Martin Luther King Drive, according to Chicago police. Video captured by ABC7 shows shattered glass surrounding ...
Fifty-seven years after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., dozens of people gathered in the pews ... with a new mixed-use project. Sterling Bay, a Chicago-based developer, purchased the ...
North Chicago Mayor Leon Rockingham ... It’s going to help develop the area along Martin Luther King Drive,” Rockingham said. “I’d like to see a hotel,” he added as a way for people ...
In 1963, King went to Chicago repeatedly to support the growing ... even when it was called out in the eloquent tones of Martin Luther King Jr. himself. After the successes of the civil rights ...