Civil Rights activist and Baptist minister Martin Luther King, Jr., is most remembered for his use of nonviolence and civil disobedience to advance civil rights and pursue equal opportunities for ...

Following a U.S. Supreme Court decision, Tennessee lawmakers returned to redraw the state's sole Democratic-leaning congressional district.

The fight over Black political power in the South continues to unfold across states haunted by slavery, segregation and ...

But going back is precisely what the legislature voted to do, as Tennessee became the first of the former Confederate states ...

A confidant and lawyer for Martin Luther King, he was an unseen hand behind major civil rights events, including the 1963 ...

Lerone Martin’s new book offers fascinating insight into the civil rights icon’s younger years Lerone Martin, a prominent scholar of Black religious history, leads the Martin Luther King Jr Research ...

Bernice King is setting the record straight on her father, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s, legacy after comedian and rapper ...

Thousands of people poured into the streets in Montgomery, Alabama, on Saturday in an effort to protect Black voting rights.

A prominent wealthy family in Tamil Nadu has witnessed three of its members getting elected as legislators in the recently concluded Assembly polls, representing three different parties in Tamil Nadu ...

A generation of Black Americans across the South fought in courtrooms and in the streets during the Civil Rights Movement to dismantle barriers to voting.

In 1965, Black Americans peacefully demonstrated for voting rights and were beaten by Alabama state troopers before returning ...

Racially segregated public schools have been illegal in Massachusetts since before the Civil War, and nationwide since the ...