Martin Luther King Day

Black History

MLK’s ‘beloved community’ has inspired social justice work for decades − what did he mean?

The Conversation - January 20, 2025

Volunteers paint columns in a hallway during the Martin Luther King Jr. National Day of Service at Ron Brown College Preparatory High School in...

Black History

Martin Luther King Jr.’s moral stance against the Vietnam War offers lessons on how to fight for peace in the Middle East

The Conversation - January 15, 2024

by Hajar Yazdiha, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Since the onset of Israel’s deadly assault on Gaza and the West Bank after...

Digital Daily

MLK’s vision of love as a moral imperative still matters

Courier Newsroom - January 17, 2022

Martin Luther King Jr.‘s message of love matters today. Tami Chappell/Reuters by Joshua F.J. Inwood, Penn State More than 50 years after the assassination of Martin Luther...

Digital Daily

How a heritage of Black preaching shaped MLK’s voice in calling for justice

Courier Newsroom - January 17, 2022

A March 9, 1965 file photo of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, Alabama. King learned from these progressive black preachers who came...

National News

3 stabbed when violence erupts at KKK rally in California

Courier Newsroom - February 28, 2016

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dozens of protesters who heard about a planned Ku Klux Klan rally were waiting by a Southern California park when...

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