The Mountaineer3dOpinion
College years during the Civil Rights Movement -- and a meeting with MLK
A church-founded liberal arts college with a chaplain’s office was always going to be my choice for higher education. After ...
FOX 323d
From MLK's driver to community impact: The powerful story of Leak and Sons Funeral Home in Chicago
Leak and Sons Funeral Homes has been supporting Chicagoland families during their times of loss. But beyond their funeral ...
USA Today11d
From Ripon College to Selma, Alabama: Remembering a journey against injustice 60 years ago
About 1,000 miles away, in Selma, Alabama, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was preparing to lead a 54-mile voting ...
Buffalo News14d
Four years after arrest, killer of woman in car in MLK Park pleads guilty
Nearly four years after being arrested in the killing an 18-year-old woman in a car in Martin Luther King Jr. Park, Mushagdusa R. Nankumba, 22, of Buffalo, pleaded guilty Friday in Erie County ...
The Chicago Maroon22d
Ruby Bridges Speaks at 35th Annual MLK Commemoration Celebration
In his opening remarks, Alivisatos reflected on the significance of the event being held in Rockefeller—the site of one of MLK’s first major speeches in Chicago in 1956. “We gather each year not only ...
The University of Chicago Chronicle24d
Dr. King’s words resonate across UChicago during daylong readings
The words, originally spoken by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in a September 1962 speech, echoed from a loudspeaker and across the University of Chicago Main Quadrangles on a frigid, sunny morning ...
Staten Island Advance24d
Federal agencies cut ‘special observances’: Holocaust Remembrance Day, MLK Jr. Day, Pride and Women’s History months
Under the directive of President Donald Trump’s executive order, federal agencies are now axing some federal observances, including Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Pride Month, Holocaust Remembrance ...
The University of Chicago Chronicle25d
How to celebrate Black History Month 2025 at UChicago
Over 100 years ago, Georgiana Simpson became the first Black woman to attain a Ph.D. at an American university, making history not just on the University of Chicago campus, but nationally. Simpson ...
NBC Chicago25d
Businesses across the Chicago area close for ‘A Day Without Immigrants' protest
Businesses across the Chicago area closed Monday in support of "A Day Without Immigrants" protests. The protests, which take place amid President Donald Trump's recent immigration crackdown ...
Chicago Tribune25d
‘Chicago has always been a city of immigrant workers’: Some Chicago businesses close their doors to protest immigration crackdown
A churro shop in Pilsen closed its doors Monday. So did a Mexican grocer in Chicago Heights. The owner of several Mexican restaurants in Elgin, himself the son of immigrants, shut his business for ...
Action News Jax26d
St. Johns County jail that once held MLK Jr. considered for demolition
Among those demonstrators was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and more than a dozen Jewish rabbis. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in St. Johns County Jail Dr. Martin Luther King's fingerprint card from his ...
The Gazette26d
Air Force will not celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Juneteenth
The Air Force will not use official resources to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day or Juneteenth, in addition to other cultural awareness holidays and months. An Air Force memo sent out Friday ...