Social justice advocates are creating a queer history archive that celebrates Bayard Rustin, a major organizer in the Civil ...

This fall, a digital archive will open access to one of the Civil Rights Movement’s most overlooked leaders: Bayard Rustin.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries breaks the record for longest speech delivered on the House floor with nearly nine ...

The House minority leader made history as he spoke for eight hours and 44 minutes in opposition to the Republicans’ massive ...

Three months after Sen. Cory Booker broke his chamber's record for the longest speech ever, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries ...

Almost four years after his “I Have a Dream” speech, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. arrived at a tent-in demonstration in ...

When the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. took the lectern at the March on Washington 50 years ago to deliver his "I Have a Dream" speech, the text in his hand didn't contain the words "I have a dream." ...

Martin Luther King III, a civil rights activist and the son of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, spoke to CBS News on MLK Day and Trump's inauguration.

Raen Parker Washington speaks the keynote address to a crowd of around 500 during the 18th Mayor's Martin Luther King, Jr. Breakfast at the Civic Center of Anderson Friday, January 17, 2025.

In August as he ran for president a third time, Donald Trump compared his crowd size on Jan. 6, 2021 to the throngs who gathered to hear Martin Luther King Jr.'s iconic speech.