I can’t believe Denzel Washington hasn’t played one particular early civil rights hero in a movie yet. I also can’t believe how few people know about this unknown hero’s incredible accomplishments — ...

In 1963, during the height of the Civil Rights Movement, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and his colleagues at the Southern ...

Martin Luther King was a prominent activist in the civil rights movement that started in America in the year 1955, this ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is Jan. 20, representing a time to remember the legacy of America’s famous Civil Rights leader and ...

Both hailed as a civil rights leader who achieved his ends by nonviolent means and vilified as a traitor to the cause of ...

Former NFL quarterback Drew Brees turns 46 and actor/musician Grace VanderWaal turns 21, among the famous birthdays for Jan.

White Plains collector Seth Kaller has an original copy of MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech, which doesn't mention the dream. King improvised it.

José “Cha Cha” Jiménez, a prominent civil rights and liberation movement figure and founder of the Young Lords in Chicago and ...

Martin Luther King Jr. was an activist and political philosopher who became one of the most prominent leaders of the civil ...

Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29 at the age of 100, spent his life intertwined with America's and the world's enduring legacy ...

Perhaps it’s too much to ask for another Ronald Reagan or John F. Kennedy – let alone Franklin Roosevelt. But where are the ...

Here is a roll call of some noteworthy figures who died in 2024 (cause of death cited for younger people, if available): ...