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Joan Trumpauer Mulholland discussed her activism during the Civil Rights Movement including her participation in Freedom Rides, sit-ins and the 1963 March on Washington. This event took plac…

From the earliest slave-holding first ladies to later champions of civil rights, there is a complicated history of American first ladies and race relations. The White House Historical Associ…

Martin Luther King III commemorated the 56th anniversary of his father’s April 4, 1968, assassination in Memphis at the Lorraine Motel at the National Civil Rights Museum.

The National Urban League held a discussion on civil rights during its Empowerment Summit. Topics included youth civic participation and mobilizing the Black community to vote in the upcomin…

President Biden made virtual remarks to attendees at the National Action Network 2024 convention, where he noted his administration’s progress in investing in underserved communities. The pr…

In Indianapolis on April 4th, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy announced to a waiting crowd that Martin Luther King, Jr. had been assassinated. Historian Ray Boomhower recounted the events leading up…

Authors Jonathan Eig ("King: A Life"), Antonia Hylton ("Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum") and Edwin Raymond ("An Inconvenient Cop") discussed issues of systemic racism as wel…

CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite announces the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, and President Lyndon Johnson makes a statement.

“The threat of Hamas poses to the people of Israel must be eliminated. And given the immense scale of suffering in Gaza, there must be an immediate ceasefire for at least the next six weeks,…

Authors Kate Masur and Dylan Penningroth discussed the role of African Americans in the civil rights movement prior to the 1950s and 1960s. The National Constitution Center in Philadelphia h…

University of Texas Austin’s Peniel Joseph discusses the lives and legacy of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.

Vice President Kamala Harris delivered remarks to civil rights leaders at an event at the White House.

Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis defended her handling of the 2020 election inference case during remarks at Big Bethel AME Church in Atlanta, as part of the congregation’s Martin Luthe…

“In 2024, where exactly is America in our fight for freedom,” asked Vice President Kamala Harris during her remarks at the NAACP South Carolina State Conference honoring Martin Luther King J…

Reverend Al Sharpton, founder and president of the National Action Network, hosted his organization’s annual breakfast honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Among those in attendance and receiving…

The American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., hosted a forum looking back six decades at the August 28, 1963, March on Washington and Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream” speec…

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) led a bipartisan group of senators in a reading of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”

Martin Luther King, Jr., was interviewed by four journalists for “Press Conference U.S.A.,” a U.S. Information Agency (USIA) series that was distributed internationally. The interviewers wer…

Chad Williams discussed the intersection of World War I and the fight for racial justice through the lens of early 20th century civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois. This event took place …