Tennessee has long been a battleground for courageous, strategic, and non-violent direct action – from the Clinton 12 to the ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a U.S. holiday and national day of service. It took a long time for the country to get there It was first proposed four days after King's 1968 assassination outside a ...

As Newark deputy mayor, Baraka said introducing Farrakhan at a speech where he espoused violent and conspiratorial views was ...

Eugenia Bless Coleman has reached the age of 18--but with a depth of thoughtfulness far beyond her years, especially ...

On their new album, two of the most celebrated composers and players in the jazz world pay homage to the pursuit of purpose ...

Maxine Smith, Dorothy Truitt Walk and Cornelia Crenshaw were civil rights leaders who challenged injustice and made a ...

All of the best quotes about hope... to help you feel more hopeful... and maybe fill the world with a bit more hopefulness ...

Poems air on Morning Edition at approximately 6:30 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. and at the end of the KRBD Evening Report (approximately 5:45 pm). Poems also air during locally hosted music programs. April 1 – ...

1807: Parliament abolishes slave trade throughout the British Empire. On the same day, the first fare-paying, passenger railway service in the world is established on the Oystermouth Railway in ...

LAST WEEK, the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration released tens of thousands of documents related to the ...

The $27 million Dream Center building is almost done, and a march will take place on the 57th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination.