Daytona Beach's oldest church is St. Mary's Episcopal Church, which was established in 1877, one year after Daytona was ...

Federal troops in American cities have historical precedent, from President George H.W. Bush's response to Rodney King riots ...

In the City of Angels, the flames that define civil unrest are more often than not fueled by America’s original sin: our ...

Eared Books. How did a white guy from Iowa decide to write a book about a crucial period in the civil rights ...

So now, The Root is taking a closer look at the anti-racist white heroes who were just as down for civil rights as Black folks throughout history. At age 18, Rev. Bruce Klunder knew he had to join the ...

A comic book about Martin Luther King released in 1958 is still being used as a resource to teach non-violence ...

Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story” is a 67-year-old colorful comic book still making an impact across the globe ...

The post-2020 trajectory increasingly mirrors the post-1968 era, when the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. prompted ...

There is a familiar story of Martin Luther King. It’s about the South — about segregated buses and lunch counters, police dogs and fire hoses, courageous struggle and long overdue federal ...

Even newspapers that recognized and reported on Southern segregation as an obvious ... it was called out in the eloquent tones of Martin Luther King Jr. himself. After the successes of the civil ...

It erases the systemic, longstanding segregation and racial inequality endemic in Northern cities and marginalizes the robust, years-long movement in Chicago that Martin Luther King supported and ...

They were also denied the right to vote in elections. Martin Luther King had his first experience of segregation at just six years old, when he was told he wasn’t allowed to play with his white ...