In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. Fact Check: We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see somethi...
King’s widow, Coretta Scott King, led the lobbying effort to drum up public support. Fifteen years after its introduction, the bill finally became law. In 1983, President Ronald Reagan’s signature created Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service as a federal holiday. The only national day ...
17, 2022. King’s eldest son criticized Biden and Congress as a whole on Monday for failing to pass voting rights legislation, even as 19 Republican-led states have made it harder to vote in response to former President Donald Trump’s false claims about election-rigging. “You were ...
In that essay, published by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank, she writes: “King’s primary aim was not to change laws, but to change people, to make neighbors of enemies and a nation out of divided races. King led with love, not racial hatred.” Raney says King’s ...
Speakers referenced John Lewis, the late lawmaker also spoke at the 1963 march. They also referred to the importance of voting in November’s election, and the links between activism for Black civil rights, disability rights and LGBT rights and against gun violence, among other cause...
Stacey Abramsis a lawyer, voting rights activist and author. In 2024, she founded an initiative, American Pride Rises, that seeks to engage communities, educate advocates and equip allies to respond to legislative and legal attacks on DEI. Abrams is the former Democratic leader of the Georgia ...
OprahWinfrey, David Oyelowo and other members of the "Selma" cast Sunday marched in Selma, Alabama, retracing the route that King took nearly 50 years ago when he led thousands of marchers over the Edmund Pettus Bridge on their way to Montgomery, paving the way for the Voting Rights Act ...
In the background is an image of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Lowery, a veteran civil rights leader who helped King found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and fought against racial discrimination, died Friday, March 27, 2020, a family statement said. He was 98. (AP ...
In a larger sense, the discipline of nonviolence required a spiritual commitment and discipline that came, for many, throughself-examination, meditation and prayer. This was the message Thurman transmitted to the larger civil rights movement. Thurman combined, in thewordsof historianMartin Marty, the...
Sixty years ago, a group of committed Americans set out to march in Washington, DC, because they had not seen the progress our movement deserved. Among their demands was the passage of theVoting Rights Act— which would become law two years later. Today, the Voting ...