What I learned of Black History when I was younger was personal, built on a family history of resistance
Teach Plus | Posted 03.19.2012
Firing good, hardworking teachers in order to get rid of the bad ones feels illogical, demoralizing, and destabilizing -- to the adults as well as to children.
John Farr | Posted 03.20.2012
With Martin Luther King's birthday just past us, and Black History month coming up, the time seems right to celebrate those invaluable films that shed light on the black community's long struggle for equal rights in this country.
AOL Real Estate | Posted 01.18.2012
Twenty-six years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was first honored with a holiday, his legacy has flourished -- and not just in the annals of hi...
Michael B. Keegan | Posted 03.19.2012
Monday could have been an opportunity for the GOP candidates to express their support for the myriad advances of the Civil Rights movement and the problems that remain, but it turned into a mess of racially-charged attacks on African Americans, immigrants and the poor instead.
Rev. Calvin Morris | Posted 03.19.2012
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. marched, and led historic marches of thousands, through the streets of city after city. Mayor Emanuel's proposed changes to the ordinances governing our right to protest fly in the face of Dr. King's legacy.
Charissa Newkirk | Posted 03.19.2012
When I fill out a college application, they will never know that I sing in the shower and used to play with Harry Potter Legos. What will they see? I'm a girl. I'm smart. And I'm black.
Clarence B. Jones | Posted 03.18.2012
Words, when spoken, are the oral paints a wordsmith uses to color the blank communication canvas before him. The choice of words, like the colors of paints, is always a formidable communications challenge.
Posted 01.17.2012
It's not uncommon for businesses to use Martin Luther King Day for a number of promotions. But the decision to use the Civil Rights leader's image on ...
Ellen Freudenheim | Posted 03.18.2012
Education was the theme of the jam-packed, sold-out, sixth annual MLK Day celebration at the Brooklyn Museum, In MLK's Footsteps: Education as a Civil Right, moderated by WNYC's Brian Lehrer.
Jon Hinck | Posted 03.17.2012
Dr. King famously said "the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice." On the 40th anniversary of King's death, then-Senator Barack Obama quoted those words and then aptly added, "but it does not bend on its own."
Bruce Reyes-Chow | Posted 03.17.2012
On this, the 2012 remembrance of the birth of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., let me just offer three very random thoughts on the "post-racial" question.
Posted 01.16.2012
Though Monday is a national day of service to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., there are other ways to pay tribute to the civil rights leader besides...
Associated Press | By BRETT ZONGKER and SAMANTHA GROSS | Posted 03.17.2012
WASHINGTON (AP) -- On the National Mall in Washington, Martin Luther King Jr. is a towering, heroic figure carved in stone. On the Broadway stage, he'...
AP | JULIE PACE | Posted 03.17.2012
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama evoked Martin Luther King Jr.'s own words about public service Monday as Obama and his family celebrated the...
Posted 01.16.2012
Laylah Ali creates images which are as simple as comic books and as complex and hieroglyphics. Their flat, cartoonish aesthetic sharply contrasts the...
Joel Berg | Posted 03.17.2012
Dr. Martin Luther King, responding to near-starvation conditions found in parts of the U.S., viewed access to food as a civil rights issue. King made the hunger issue a central component of his Poor People's Campaign.
Posted 01.16.2012
Today's Martin Luther King Day Parade runs from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., but the street closures began at 9 a.m. this morning. There is a stage set up be...
AP | JEFFREY COLLINS | Posted 03.17.2012
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Thousands commemorating the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday Monday outside South Carolina's capitol heard a message that wouldn'...
Posted 03.17.2012
We've all heard piece of the "I Have A Dream" speech from the historic March on Washington. The popular DJ and vlogger Jay Smooth put together a video...
HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 01.16.2012
In Dr. King's honor, today, let us celebrate brotherhood, sisterhood -- humanhood -- and the scientific spirit that allows us to learn about the wonders of the universe as one unified people.
Posted 01.16.2012
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was many things to many people, yet central to his identity was his role as a Christian pastor and religious lead...
Irene Monroe | Posted 03.16.2012
Each year, I mark the MLK holiday by reexamining King's teachings, remembering that my longing for LGBTQ justice is inextricably tied to my work toward religious tolerance in the black church. And this is why I continue to speak up.
Mateo Gutierrez | Posted 03.16.2012
Today: Go be free. Be seriously free, revel in the complexity and mess of it all -- you deserve it and the world needs it.
Debra Eschmeyer | Posted 03.16.2012
MLK recognized the importance of the right to knowledge, engagement, and access to healthy food. When FoodCorps asked its first class of service members what they believe in, the influence of MLK was reflected in their statements.
Jesmyn Ward | Posted 04.03.2012