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Martin Luther King

April 2024

  • Martin Luther King III

    Martin Luther King Jr’s family to visit Memphis on anniversary of his murder

    The relatives of slain civil rights leader will visit Tennessee city to bring attention to erosion of civil rights in US

February 2024

  • White statue with gap in the middle

    Martin Luther King Jr memorial vandalized in Colorado park

  • A young black protester with a big 'afro' hairstyle and a black bandana over her face holds a cardboard sign to the camera reading "I refuse to be silent"

    Opinion
    Gaza’s social media activists are a potent force for change in the fight against racism

    Kenneth Mohammed

January 2024

  • Black man with mustache man looks forward with thumb on chin.

    Dexter Scott King, younger son of Martin Luther King Jr, dies aged 62

  • Martin Luther King and Ralph Abernathy<br>(Original Caption) Released. Birmingham, ALA: Rev. Ralph Abernathy (left) and Dr. Martin Luther King (center) are greeted with microphones as they emerge from the Jefferson County jail wearing a four-day growth of beard. A Nobel Prize winner, King suffering from a virus cold, said he felt fine after being released. King, Abernathy and two aides served a four-day jail term after the Supreme Court upheld their conviction for contempt of a court induction against the civil rights demonstrations here in 1963. An Aide to Dr. King disclosed late November 3rd that the civil rights leader was planning a visit to the Soviet Union.

    ‘His dream’s been weaponized into his nightmare’: how Martin Luther King Jr’s words have been co-opted

December 2023

  • The childhood home of Martin Luther King in Atlanta.

    Woman arrested over alleged arson attempt on Martin Luther King home

    Woman, 26, charged after witnesses say she poured gasoline on home’s porch in Atlanta before being stopped by off-duty police

November 2023

  • black and white picture of Bayard Rustin in front of a building in 1963

    ‘He never hid himself’: the incredible life of gay civil rights leader Bayard Rustin

    Netflix’s Oscar-tipped biopic tells the story of an activist whose significant work was often discounted because of his sexuality
  • A still from Chaityabhumi shows a crowd gathered at a rally with a backdrop of Bhimrao Ambedkar.

    From ‘untouchable’ to architect of India’s constitution: film tells story of Ambedkar

    Documentary looks at lasting popularity of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, one of the founders of modern India, who championed the rights of Dalits
  • The UN general assembly, with a board showing the votes of member states

    Jamaica was never afraid to stand on the side of justice – silence on Gaza shames us

    Kenneth Mohammed
    In not speaking out, the government has broken with a proud Caribbean history of condemning human rights violations

October 2023

  • Len Chander.

    Len Chandler obituary

    American folk singer and civil rights activist who performed with Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Pete Seeger

August 2023

  • Dr Clarence B Jones, photographed in Boston where he received his law degree at Boston University School of Law

    Black lives
    ‘Martin Luther King told me I wouldn’t see 50’: the long, momentous life of Clarence B Jones

  • Martin Luther King Jr waves to supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, on 28 August 1963.

    March on Washington: the day MLK – and Dylan and Baez – made hope and history rhyme

  • 60th Anniversary of the March on Washington, D.C., USA - 26 Aug 2023<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by John Lamparski 2023/Shutterstock (14069672ak) Martin Luther King III and Yolanda Rnee King commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington with this years theme "Continuing the Dream" on the National Mall on August 26, 2023 in Washington D.C. In 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the historic "I Have A Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in which he called to end racism and advocated for civil and economic rights for African Americans. 60th Anniversary of the March on Washington, D.C., USA - 26 Aug 2023

    ‘Racism is still with us’: celebration of King’s 1963 speech shadowed by racist attack

  • Martin Luther King III, the son of Martin Luther King Jr, at the Martin Luther King Memorial in Washington.

    ‘A rededication’: Martin Luther King’s family mark anniversary of March on Washington

  • ‘I witnessed the best of America’: remembering the March on Washington 60 years on

  • Politics Weekly America
    Al Sharpton on 60 years since the civil rights march on Washington – podcast

June 2023

  • FILE PHOTO: King Farris, sister slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. smiles as President Obama is sworn in on her brother's bible as she watched from Ebenezer Baptist Church following the 45th Martin Luther King, Jr. Annual Commemorative Ser<br>FILE PHOTO: Christine King Farris, sister of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., smiles as President Barack Obama is sworn in on her brother's bible as she watches from Ebenezer Baptist Church following the 45th Martin Luther King, Jr. Annual Commemorative Service in Atlanta, Georgia, January 21, 2013. REUTERS/Tami Chappell/File Photo

    Christine King Farris, Martin Luther King’s last living sibling, dies aged 95

    Farris spent decades working with Coretta Scott King – often behind the scenes – to promote her brother’s legacy

May 2023

  • Picture taken from above of Martin Luther King Jr in a suit shaking hands with a crowd across a fence

    Book of the day
    King: The Life of Martin Luther King by Jonathan Eig review – a story that speaks to our times

    The author of a monumental biography of Muhammad Ali uses new material to flesh out the civil rights giant
  • The Martin Luther King Jr Memorial in Washington DC, with the Washington Monument behind.

    Martin Luther King, founding father: Jonathan Eig on his epic new biography

    A life of Muhammad Ali led the author to his new book, then a prize-winning predecessor played guide and adviser
  • 3d01847u Martin Luther King and Malcolm X waiting for press conference, 26 March 1964

    Martin Luther King’s famous criticism of Malcolm X ‘just not true’, author finds

    Published quotes attacking ‘fiery, demagogic oratory’ suggested deep divide but transcript of 1965 interview tells different story
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