In Alabama, many have come through the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport, but have you ever stopped to ask, why is it named Shuttlesworth?Well, the ...

I wanted to cry, but I couldn't because my eyes were filled with glass." Sarah Collins Rudolph signs books after speaking at ...

Many of the people who advise me to emulate King oppose diversity, equity and inclusion — the principles King championed and ...

The Feb. 12 talk at Temple Beth Tikvah in Wayne will feature Avi Dresner and Donzaleigh Abernathy, the children of civil rights activists.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a complex man and an incredible leader, and it is important and instructive to reflect on his ...

In every activist movement since the beginning of recorded history, leaders have had to recruit followers to join their movement. In the 1960’s civil rights movement, this strategy led Dr. Martin ...

In the early months of 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr. did something he rarely allowed himself to do -- he stepped away. He ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was held at the old jail in 1964. It was the only time King was arrested in Florida.

There’s an adage that goes: “The best part of the meal is the company.” And those words were never more true than in June 1958 when the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. came to town.

Today, the AJC is marking the 10th anniversary of our acclaimed Black History Month series with "Atlanta Unveiled: How African Americans Shaped Our City." ...