In 1983, about 20 years after King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, legislation for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day cleared Congress, and President Ronald Reagan signed it.
Somewhere Toward Freedom” tells the story of Sherman’s March to the Sea from the perspective of the formerly enslaved.
Donald Trump is hours away from becoming President of the United States for a second time, and he has promised to 'make heads ...
How did Martin Luther King's message get across to America? Partly through pop culture. Music, movies, TV helped spread his ...
For many people, Donald J. Trump being sworn in as president on Martin Luther King Jr. Day is antithetical to the legacy of ...
Kristina Estle, director of the Underground Railroad Museum, wants area residents to remember and understand the cause that ...
On the site where The Embrace memorializes Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King once stood a social club that ...
Director Peter Berg, executive producer Eric Newman, Indigenous Consultant Julia O’Keefe, stars Taylor Kitsch, Betty Gilpin, ...
The Battle of Gettysburg, too, was explicitly a family affair. Many families sent soldiers who fought on opposite sides, including, as one reenactor recites to me by heart, the Walker brothers, the ...
The political winds blow, but right and wrong do not change. You can still oppress or tolerate, flatter power or speak truth to it. Your choice.
Since then, the vast majority of House speakers have been elected by acclamation or with more than 140 votes. Even Rep. Dade ...