A half-century ago, it was a radical notion that a black man in America could have any kind of big dream at all. Yet on January 21, Martin Luther King Day, we will see the second term inauguration of America's first-ever black president. Talk about historical synergy.

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is celebrated today, Jan. 16, 2011, on what would have been the civil rights leader's 83rd birthday. It's a great day ...

The best-known parts of "I Have A Dream" have entered into a sort of comfortable familiarity, which allows everyone to view them without being challenged by the more pointed things Dr. King had to say that day.

Just six and one half years ago, a young state senator spoke for 16 minutes and 11 seconds (just 4 seconds longer than the real "King's Speech," Marti...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is Monday, honoring one the greatest civil rights leaders of all time. Celebrated this year on January 17, 2011, the holid...

It all seemed a little strange on August 28th. Glenn Beck insisted his "Restoring Honor 8/28" rally was a revival meeting, not a "political" event.

Well, the Lincoln Memorial Beckanalia has come and gone, and all the handwringing and ridiculing that led up to it has subsided. But there's one critical thing that still needs to be said.

It is and always has been a risk in free societies that those interested in power or ideology will take advantage of those freedoms to deny the same to others.

Today more than ever, Dr. King now seems with us. His premonition of not reaching the Promised Land at this moment seems false, because Barack Obama is standing on King's shoulders.

A percentage of whites who said they'd vote for Obama also said that blacks were more crime prone than whites. Yet Obama was seen as a racial exception, the penchant for making these distinctions between blacks.

In his "I Have a Dream" speech, MLK talked about a check given to African Americans that had bounced, a check that said "all men were created equal." 45 years later, has the check cleared?

McCain: I have a dream that one day all men will live out the true meaning of my creed: "We hold these first wives to be self-evidently dump-able (especially if they have gained a lot of weight after a severely disfiguring car accident).