Martin Luther King

Civil rights icon and longtime Georgia congressman John Lewis is being remembered in ceremonies in the rural Alabama county where his story began

Sander Vanocur, a television newsman who for decades covered momentous events from political campaigns to assassinations, the Vietnam War to the civil rights movement, has died, his son said Tuesday.

Former Vice President Joe Biden posed a stark hypothetical to voters in New Hampshire Friday as he discussed today’s volatile political climate: What if Barack Obama had been assassinated? The comment came toward the end of a town hall meeting on the campus of Dartmouth College ostensibly about healthcare issues, NBC News reports. It was not part of Biden’s standard...

A black artist has dropped his bid to build a slave memorial in front of Boston’s historic Faneuil Hall after the NAACP objected. Steve Locke announced Tuesday on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter that he won’t go forward with the project because the president of the Boston chapter of the prominent civil rights group warned him they would come out strongly...

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said he was reluctantly prepared to slap retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods if negotiators in Washington had failed to strike a deal, addressing a boisterous celebratory rally Saturday in the border city of Tijuana. The president’s comments came shortly after his foreign minister and chief negotiator, Marcelo Ebrard, told the rally the country had...

Bill Cosby’s insurance company has agreed to settle lawsuits filed by seven women who say the comedian defamed them when he accused them of lying about sexual misconduct allegations.

In his first message from prison, the 81-year-old told NBC10’s Erin Coleman that he is a victim of “entrapment” carried out by a “low-life District Attorney” and “corrupt Judge.”

Cosby’s spokesman provided a glimpse the former star’s new life behind bars. The 81-year-old’s routine is a far cry from his previous days when many considered the comedian “America’s dad.”

President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence made a brief surprise visit Monday to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C.

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren plans to rally with Boston airport workers to highlight the federal government shutdown and other concerns.

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a national holiday to honor the activist and leader’s life and his achievements in the mission to end racial segregation and inequality, there are plenty of ways to celebrate. Here are some of the best tributes and events taking place around the city:

On the second anniversary of the Women’s March on Washington, New Yorkers will have to choose between two competing marches.

Seven more public schools in Paterson, New Jersey, are operating in shelter-in-place mode Thursday after district officials were told of threats against them, authorities said.

The National Park Service is exploring whether to require protest organizers to pay for the cost of providing law enforcement and other support services for demonstrations held in the nation’s capital.

That relationship between the White House and the Supreme Court is being examined anew following the bitter confirmation fight over Brett Kavanaugh, who angrily denounced President Donald Trump’s political opponents during a Senate hearing. Kavanaugh, who previously served in President George W. Bush’s White House, took the concerns about his appearance of partisanship so seriously that he wrote a Wall...

Marlin Briscoe didn’t want to be pigeonholed simply because of stereotypes against black men. He was a star quarterback in college, and he believed he had the talent, intelligence and leadership skills to be one in the pros. Fifty years ago, during an era of massive social upheaval in the United States, just getting a chance to prove it took...

In a historic groundswell of youth activism, hundreds of thousands of teenagers and their supporters rallied across the U.S. Saturday against gun violence, vowing to transform fear and grief into a “vote-them-out” movement for tougher laws on weapons. They took to the streets of the nation’s capital and cities such as Boston, New York, Chicago, Houston, Minneapolis, Phoenix and Los...

President Donald Trump — via the Republican National Committee — on Wednesday released the winners of his much-hyped “Fake News Awards.” Long advertised by the president as a celebration of — as he called it — “the most corrupt & biased of the Mainstream Media,” the awards named 11 stories published since the former reality television star took office.

New Jersey Transit’s board held a controversial meeting on Martin Luther King Day but didn’t vote on purchasing a 3-acre site on Hoboken’s waterfront to use as a ferry maintenance terminal. In a surprise move, the proposed purchase was pulled from Monday’s agenda. The vote had been scheduled for last Wednesday, but not enough board members showed up to...

Prominent lawmakers and community leaders took aim at President Donald Trump’s racial rhetoric at a commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. The event was led by the Rev. Al Sharpton, who spoke to a crowd of 200 at the National Action Network in Harlem on Monday. “Trump Tower is in the wrong state,” said Sharpton, adding that it’s...