MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Thich Nhat Hanh, the revered Zen Buddhist monk who helped spread the practice of mindfulness in the West and socially engaged Buddhism in the East, has died.

Democrats are picking up the pieces after the collapse of their sweeping voting rights legislation.

Lauren Boebert, Lindsey Graham, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Kevin McCarthy, Kayleigh McEnany and Josh Hawley were all slammed for hypocrisy.

Voting options are narrowing, and the voting process is getting tougher as many states put tighter restrictions in place.

King delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech while leading the 1963 March on Washington, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.

King delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech while leading the 1963 March on Washington, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.

Hundreds gathered Monday to honor and celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by marching around the streets of downtown San Marcos.[San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] News San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]

The South Carolina Congressman and House Majority Whip spoke with Newsy on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

The South Carolina Congressman and House Majority Whip spoke with Newsy on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. would. have turned 93 on Jan. 15. He was just 39 when he was assassinated in 1968 in Memphis, Tenn.

Hundreds in Corpus Christi marched in celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s life and legacy on Monday.

This holiday marks what would have been the 93rd birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

King delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech while leading the 1963 March on Washington, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.

The U.S. Senate’s only Black Republican is putting forth what he characterizes as a positive response to partisan rhetoric on race that he’s best-positioned to rebut.

Some of the same voting debates underway when Martin Luther King Jr. was alive are still being debated right now in Texas and in Washington, D.C.

Martin Luther King Jr. knew that gaining equality before the law was only a first step to...

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s eldest son has condemned the inaction of federal lawmakers on voting rights.

NBA players officially began participating in games that were scheduled to celebrate and honor the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1986 when the federal holiday commemorating the civil-rights leader was observed for the first time.

Nearly six decades after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis, and others fought "Jim Crow" laws that blocked some Americans from the ballot box, leading to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, voting rights - and our very democracy - are under siege again.

Were he alive today, he’d still be hated by those wedded to the status quo. | Opinion

Due to insufficient infrastructure, a heavy period of rain caused the street in this Gaza City refugee camp to flood. The high water has made crossing the street almost impossible.

Martin Luther King III came to Arizona with harsh words for Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, whose refusal to change filibuster rules makes voting rights legislation unlikely to pass in the Senate.

Gwen Middlebrooks said she told King she wanted to get married because she was tired of saying good night when James dropped her off after dates.

AccuWeather's Jillian Angeline was in Des Moines, Iowa, on Jan. 14, as residents braced for a major winter storm.

What we can take from King’s experience is the importance of spiritual grounding to move onward in the hard, perilous struggle for justice.

The Comal Independent School District will extend its Martin Luther King Jr. holiday another day in an effort to slow down COVID-19 infections and give students and staff time to “reset” and “re-calibrate.”

Monday won’t be all picnics and parades. While many workers across the region have a day off for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, law enforcement officers will be out in full force. For reasons that still are not that clear, on MLK Day, South Florida roads, even the interstate, morph into a into giant free-for-all. It’s a daredevil’s playground with hundreds of people on dirt bikes and ...

President Joe Biden is challenging senators to “stand against voter suppression,” urging them to change Senate rules in order to pass voting rights legislation that Republicans are blocking from debate and votes.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter used an address Monday to push for federal voting rights legislation and slam the twisting of critical race theory to create what she called “false narratives.” Rev. Bernice King said there is a “very urgent need” for voting legislation, and that it is “crucial to humanity across the globe that the United States of America stands as a democratic nation.” King also addressed critical race theory, a way of thinking about America’s history that centers on the idea that racism is systemic in the nation’s institutions and that they function to maintain the dominance of white people in society.

Sidney Poitier made history — on the screen and off.

San Antonio-area artist creates first piece of public art thanks to city program.

The official seal of the City of Atlanta shows a phoenix rising from the ashes of the Civil War.

Claudette Colvin was 15 when she was arrested for refusing to move to the back of a segregated Alabama bus in 1955. After 66 years, a judge has approved her request to clear her record.

President Joe Biden has expressed alarm about a “backward slide” of democracy around the globe at a virtual Summit for Democracy.

President Joe Biden is convening global leaders determined to show the world that democracy can still deliver.

Alabama's governor is honoring the state's first Black poet laureate, a creative writing teacher from Birmingham who delves into the pain and difficulty of being Black in America.

A Southern chapter of the right-wing parents advocacy group Moms of Liberty is protesting teaching the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in school because they […]

France has inducted U.S.-born entertainer, anti-Nazi spy and civil rights activist Josephine Baker into the Pantheon.

A Black woman will, for the first time, join other luminaries interred in France’s Pantheon.

<em>Freedom</em> used to be a rallying cry for justice, but the country’s realtors had a better use for it.

France is inducting Missouri-born cabaret dancer Josephine Baker who was also a French World War II spy and civil rights activist into its Pantheon.

Authorities say Malikah Shabazz, one of six daughters of slain civil rights leader Malcolm X, was found dead in her home in New York City.

New measures that restrict how race is addressed in classrooms have spread confusion and anxiety among many educators.

It began as a prize-winning magazine issue and became a cultural flashpoint, and now “The 1619 Project” is coming out as a book.

Not very effectively, though. Cherry-picking quotes didn't help him defend his COVID deception.

Republicans plan to forcefully oppose race and diversity curricula in public schools as a core piece of their strategy in the 2022 midterm elections.

The quest by a civil rights pioneer to have her arrest record wiped clean after nearly 70 years after she protested racial segregation has raised the possibility of similar bids to clear the names of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. in Alabama.

An 82-year-old Black woman who became a civil rights pioneer when she was arrested for refusing to move to the back of an Alabama bus in 1955 wants to end the case once and for all.

Jerry Pinkney, a prize-winning children’s book illustrator known for his richly textured images of Black life, fables and fairy tales in works ranging from “The Lion and the Mouse” to “The Sunday Outing,” has died at 81.

President Joe Biden is tying his legislative priorities on voting rights, police reform and climate change to Martin Luther King Jr.'s push for racial justice.

Sheryll Cashin traces the history of segregation, disinvestment and criminalization.

In a predominantly Black Chicago neighborhood, how one affordable housing program is addressing inequality by enabling homeownership.

The Central York School District in Pennsylvania reversed its “freeze” on a list of anti-racism books and educational resources focused almost entirely on titles related to people of color, including books on Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr.

The former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murder in George Floyd’s death intends to appeal his conviction and sentence, saying the judge abused his discretion or erred during several key points in the case.

Critics of Black Lives Matter have held up King as a foil to the movement’s criticisms of law enforcement, but those are views that King himself shared.

The 2021 Texas Biennial abounds with new monuments for a state and art community in transition.

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Former first lady Michelle Obama and The Poor People’s Campaign have been chosen to receive Freedom Awards from the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee.

Thousands of voting rights advocates are rallying across the country Saturday to call for sweeping protections against a further erosion of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Civil rights leaders and activists will call on Congress to pass federal voting rights protections at a rally in Washington, D.C., on Saturday.

Civil rights leaders and activists will call on Congress to pass federal voting rights protections at a rally in Washington, D.C., on Saturday.

The video game's new feature takes players back in time to experience Martin Luther King Jr.'s iconic 1963 speech. But some people worry it sends the wrong message about the civil rights leader.

Activists marching on Saturday want federal legislation to fight new rules in Republican-led states that they say make it harder to vote. The House passed one major bill this week.

Stephen Oates has died after a life that saw him become an award-winning Civil War historian who wrote biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Clara Barton, William Faulkner and others.

In the nation’s capital on Saturday, multiracial coalitions of civil, human and labor rights leaders are convening rallies and marches to urge passage of federal voter protections that have been eroded since the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Dorothy Parker's headstone has been unveiled at a New York cemetery where the ashes of the author and humorist who died in 1967 are interred.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, and his wife, Jacqueline, remain under doctors’ observation at a Chicago hospital and are “responding positively to treatments” for COVID-19.

Plans are underway to reinter the remains of American-born singer and dancer Josephine Baker at the Pantheon monument in Paris.

U.S. Rep. Troy Nehls of Texas says that he’s tested positive for COVID-19 and has moderate symptoms.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson and his wife, Jacqueline, have been hospitalized after testing positive for COVID-19.

The federal government deliberately targeted Black Lives Matter protesters via heavy-handed criminal prosecutions in an attempt to disrupt and discourage the global movement that swept the nation last summer in the wake of the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd.

The life and legacy of late author and former Tennessee resident Alex Haley is being honored 100 years after he was born.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s son says Texas Republicans are misrepresenting his father’s words in effort to whitewash history.

A new book debunking popular lore results in the kind of cancellation conservatives decry.

French President Emmanuel Macron has made American civil rights leader Jesse Jackson a commander of the Legion of Honor, France’s highest award.

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are both marking the one-year anniversary of the death U.S. Rep. John Lewis by urging Congress to enact laws to protect voting rights.

Sen. Raphael Warnock is still the prominent freshman who helped his party win control on Capitol Hill.

The one-two punch of the coronavirus pandemic that shuttered the Capitol’s doors in the spring of 2020 and the deadly January riot by Donald Trump's supporters has left the icon of American democracy closed to all but a select few.

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In Questlove's documentary “Summer of Soul” a musical flood, too long dammed up, is finally released.

We set our calendars around national holidays — from December 25 for Christmas to July 4 for Independence Day, and, starting this year, June 19 for Juneteenth.

The estate of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has reached an agreement with HarperCollins Publishers for rights to his archive.

Politics is often injected with a religious fervor, a winner-take-all attitude. But religion also has a different function: community building.

Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest’s polarizing presence has hung over Memphis, Tennessee, since he moved there in 1852 with his family.

Anti-government protesters have taken to the streets in cities across Brazil as the nation’s confirmed death toll from COVID-19 soared past half a million.

President Joe Biden is marking another milestone in his quest to bring the COVID-19 pandemic under control.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is an NBA legend, but the man known for his trademark skyhook shot has also devoted his life advocating for equality and social justice.

Minnesota prosecutors say the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murder and manslaughter in George Floyd's death should not be granted a new trial.

It’s a celebration of Black history and freedom that relatively few white Americans had heard of until recent years, if at all.

The real Fort Worth children’s home of football movie fame did not admit Black children until 2000

A memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King planned for the Boston Common has received unanimous approval from a city panel, allowing construction to start, the group behind the memorial said Wednesday. The 20-foot-high (6-meter-high) bronze sculpture called “The Embrace" will be one of the country's largest memorials dedicated to racial equity when installation is complete in October 2022, the privately-funded King Boston organization said in a statement. It was fitting that approval Tuesday from the Boston Landmarks Commission came on the one-year anniversary of George Floyd's death, organization Executive Director Imari Paris Jeffries said.

Charles Avery had barely started marching when police arrested him, forced him into a police vehicle and took him to jail for participating in landmark civil rights protests that helped change the nation in 1963. “I had to explain what it was, that it was from Birmingham," said Avery, 76. Veterans of the campaign that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. helped lead to eradicate racial segregation in Birmingham nearly 60 years ago remain firmly in the corner of racial justice now that they're old and gray, with some joining in protests that followed George Floyd's murder by Minneapolis police last year and others watching at home on TV.

A spokesman for Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, whose office oversaw the prosecution, dismissed the claims. “The court has already rejected many of these arguments, and the state will vigorously oppose them,” he said.

A new program from United Airlines may help with the recruitment of Black people to aviation careers, but there's a long history of Black pilots.

Tricia Messeroux is using her photography talents to educate the next generation about Black history by capturing young children dressed up as famous icons like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Nina Simone. As part of the series "Unifying America," Jericka Duncan shows how these photos are now inspiring future leaders.

click to enlarge Courtesy of San Antonio Museum of ArtNamed one of Time Magazine’s Must-Read Books in 2020, The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. intertwines the stories of the two civil rights leaders, while analyzing the relationship between the men and reexamining how they shaped the movement and era they both helped define. The San Antonio Museum of Art will host a virtual lecture with award-winning author Peniel E. Joseph during which he’ll discuss his book in depth. Along with his joint professorship at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the history department of the University of Texas at Austin, Joseph is a frequent commentator on issues of race, civil rights and democracy.

Cibolo area church leaders gathered on Main Street in Cibolo outside St. Paul’s Evangelical Church to pray for people driving by, in the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on a day set aside in his honor. Cibolo Mayor Stosh Boyle helped bring together spiritual leaders from St. Paul’s, Everyday Christian Fellowship, and Refuge Church of San Antonio in Cibolo to offer a drive-by prayer service on Jan. 18. Tables with boxes of doughnuts were set up, neon cardboard signs were drawn, and a half-dozen church members stood by, inviting passing motorists to pull over to be prayed upon. From 7-9:30 a.m., and again from 3:30-6 p.m., Boyle and the church members stood by, ready to offer prayer and words of comfort for anyone driving past. He was joined that afternoon by Refuge Church children’s pastor Sarah Uhlhorn, and church member Omar Rivera, who held signs announcing the drive-up prayer effort.

CBS News is recognizing people who are trying to right injustices and bring communities together in a new series, Unifying America. "CBS Evening News" got a look at the Museum of the Courageous, a nonprofit that honors those who stand up to hate. Years ago, a class of fifth-grade students marched into California's state Capitol to testify and rewrite their history books. She and her fellow students are among the first nine honorees of the "Museum of the Courageous" — a new, online nonprofit that highlights those who stand up to hate. "The story of the courageous class really offers us inspiration and a pathway forward," Vazquez added.

"Museum of the Courageous" nominates group of 5th graders using their voice to combat hate As we honor the memory of Martin Luther King Jr., a group of students deserves special mention for taking Dr. King's message of racial justice to heart. More now from Nikki Battiste in our CBS News series "Unifying America."

Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. as nation reckons with racial injustice CBS News political contributor Antjuan Seawright joins CBSN to discuss the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 53 years after his assassination, as the nation continues to reckon with racial injustice.