COLUMBIA, S.C. (Associated Press) - On this day 10 years ago, South Carolina pulled the Confederate battle flag from its ...

Wikimedia Commons/Warren K. Leffler, U.S. News & World Report The 1968 Poor People’s Campaign Martin Luther King Jr. planned ...

Founded in 1957 by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders, the SCLC has been at the forefront of social ...

Discover some of the architecture and history of Cleveland's Black churches, many of which congregations are trying to ...

Ludlow, Colorado, 1914: eleven thousand mine workers had been on strike for seven months against John D. Rockefeller’s ...

Ga., challenged budget plans from Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins and White House budget director Russell Vought during hearings.

Senators Ossoff and Warnock reintroduced a bill to designate Atlanta's West Hunter Street Baptist Church a National Historic Site.

The decision is the latest in a series of actions by the Trump Administration during its second term that reflect a broader rollback of LGBTQ rights. Since January, the administration has reinstated a ...

Mr. Creecy served as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a civil rights group that was co-founded by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. By The Associated Press ...

What happened to Martin Luther King Jr.? In 1968, King and other Southern Christian Leadership Conference members were called to Memphis to support a sanitation workers' strike.

DOCTOR KING WAS INVITED TO SPEAK BEFORE A SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE, BUT HIS SPEECH FOCUSED ON RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN LOUISVILLE’S HOUSING MARKET.

During Martin Luther King Jr.'s years of public appearances, he visited S.C. 10 times between 1959 and 1967, favoring the Penn Center in as a special retreat.