Martin Luther King Jr. on the power of voting
With Martin Luther King Jr. Day falling on the same day as the first contest in the 2024 GOP primaries, we take a look back at King's own words on the power of voting.
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With Martin Luther King Jr. Day falling on the same day as the first contest in the 2024 GOP primaries, we take a look back at King's own words on the power of voting.
Millions of Americans are under wind chill alerts as extreme cold weather envelops the U.S. CBS News correspondent Omar Villafranca reports.
The NFL and Martin Luther King Jr.'s family are kicking off a 5-year initiative committing more than 100 million hours of community service by Americans, according to Martin Luther King III and Arndrea Waters King, who joined CBS News on the celebration of the U.S. holiday commemorating the civil rights icon's birthday.
Through songs, poems and moments of reflections, the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is being remembered.
Philadelphia and the region are going big on the Martin Luther King Jr. National Day of Service this year - here's what to know about events.
Lower Merion students and parents honored Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy Friday with a day of service at Harriton High School.
Two retired New York City Police Department officers, and brothers, were honored Saturday for their role in helping halt an arson attack on the Atlanta birth home of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.
A 26-year-old woman was taken into custody Thursday on allegations she tried to set fire to the birth home of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta.
The home had been open for public tours through last month, when it was closed for an "extensive renovation project" that is not expected to be completed until 2025.
In August of 1963, two years after winning an Academy Award for her role in "West Side Story," Rita Moreno sat alongside Sammy Davis Jr. at the March on Washington.
1963's March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom is an event remembered not only for its soul-stirring rhetoric but for the change it spurred. The decades that followed have been filled with both progress and hardships -- including the assassination of the leader of that history-making march. Marc Morial, CEO of the National Urban League, joins CBS News to reflect on the march.
Williams returned from the war feeling like a hero, but once he returned he experienced racism.
Entitled "Normalcy Never Again," the original version did not even include the word dream.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his historic "I Have A Dream" speech 60 years ago. Nikole Killion takes a look at one of the drafts of the speech to see how it differs from what King ultimately said on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
Monday marks 60 years since Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders led the March on Washington. The Library of Congress on Capitol Hill holds a number of artifacts from the march. CBS News White House reporter Willie James Inman takes a tour of the collection.
Johnson's seven decades of fighting for voting, housing, education, and employment rights in the Land of 10,000 Lakes is legendary. WCCO's Reg Chapman sat down with the civil rights icon as she reflected on this historic moment.
Sixty years ago Monday, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led the March on Washington and delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. Tracey Robinson-English, professor with the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, joins CBS News to talk about the speech and what it meant.
Judy Gough, Odehyah Gough-Israel and Carolyn Eisenberg offer varying viewpoints on that unforgettable day.
On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his epic "I Have a Dream" speech. New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow reflects on the power of the speech, and on King's evolving views about addressing racism in America.
Pastor Alyn Waller reflects on the March on Washington and the impact the civil rights leader had on his life.
The speech took place after he and over 100,000 people walked down Woodward in a march called the Walk to Freedom.
This latest biography, drawing upon more than 200 interviews and previously-unseen FBI documents, creates a deeper study of the civil rights leader's upbringing and mission.
President Biden delivered the keynote address at the National Action Network's MLK Day commemoration in Washington. CBS News contributor and Democratic strategist Antjuan Seawright discusses the speech and reflects on Dr. King's legacy.
The 22-foot tall sculpture, named "The Embrace," represents the hug between Dr. King and his wife after he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.
Inspired by a photograph of the civil rights activists hugging each other, "The Embrace," a 22-foot-tall bronze sculpture by artist Hank Willis Thomas, will be unveiled at Boston Common on January 13.