Martin Luther King Jr.
Jennifer Starr Dodd, center, and other supporters react to the sentencing of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd, Friday, June 25, 2021, at George Floyd Square where Floyd was killed, in Minneapolis. Chauvin was sentenced to 22 1/2 years in prison. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Chauvin gets 22 1/2 years in prison for George Floyd's death

By Amy Forliti And Steve Karnowski Jun. 25, 2021 03:40 PM EDT

Vice President Kamala Harris talks to George Mitchell as he receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a COVID-19 pop-up center at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Friday, June 18, 2021, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Biden promotes milestone of 300M vaccine shots in 150 days

By Darlene Superville Jun. 18, 2021 12:34 PM EDT

A tram drives through downtown Lisbon, Friday, June 18, 2021. Travel in and out of the Lisbon metropolitan area is to be banned over coming weekends as Portuguese authorities respond to a spike in new COVID-19 cases in the region around the capital. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)
The Latest: Uganda tightening measures due to virus surge

By The Associated Press Jun. 18, 2021 05:32 AM EDT

Today in History

By The Associated Press Jun. 08, 2021 12:00 AM EDT
Today in History Today is Tuesday, June 8, the 159th day of 2021. There are 206 days left in the year. Today’s...

Points cover the surface of a plaster model from a sculpture by Chas Fagan of Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winning author Elie Wiesel in the Human Rights Porch at the Washington National Cathedral, Thursday, March 25, 2021. The marks are made with a pointing machine, a measuring tool to accurately copy plaster sculpture models into stone. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel gets seat at National Cathedral

By Ashraf Khalil Apr. 28, 2021 12:09 AM EDT

MLK memorial effort in Boston gets $1M from Bank of America

Apr. 26, 2021 02:01 PM EDT
BOSTON (AP) — The organization planning a memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King in Boston is getting a $1 million grant from Bank of...

This combination of photos shows the Oscar nominees for best actor, from left, Riz Ahmed, “Sound of Metal"; Chadwick Boseman, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”; Anthony Hopkins, “The Father”; Gary Oldman, “Mank"; Steven Yeun, “Minari." (Amazon/Netflix/Sony Pictures Classics/Netflix/A24 via AP)
Is this an 'Asterisk Oscars' or a sign of things to come?

By Jake Coyle Apr. 22, 2021 03:18 PM EDT

FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2020, file photo, cars travel on a stretch of Blue Parkway in Kansas City, Mo. After years of debate and a divisive election, Kansas City will soon have a street route named for Martin Luther King Jr., removing its designation as one of the largest city's in the U.S. to not have a street named for the civil rights icon. On Tuesday, April 13, 2021, the city's Board of Parks and Recreation approved a plan to name a 5-mile stretch that runs east to west for King, which includes Blue Parkway. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
Kansas City approves naming street for Martin Luther King

By Margaret Stafford Apr. 13, 2021 07:31 PM EDT

Today in History

By The Associated Press Apr. 12, 2021 12:00 AM EDT
Today in History Today is Monday, April 12, the 102nd day of 2021. There are 263 days left in the year. Today’s...

Today in History

By The Associated Press Apr. 11, 2021 12:00 AM EDT
Today in History Today is Sunday, April 11, the 101st day of 2021. There are 264 days left in the year. Today’s...

Today in History

By The Associated Press Apr. 09, 2021 12:00 AM EDT
Today in History Today is Friday, April 9, the 99th day of 2021. There are 266 days left in the year. Today’s...

Today in History

By The Associated Press Apr. 04, 2021 12:00 AM EDT
Today in History Today is Easter Sunday, April 4, the 94th day of 2021. There are 271 days left in the year. Today’s...

Today in History

By The Associated Press Apr. 03, 2021 12:00 AM EDT
Today in History Today is Saturday April 3, the 93rd day of 2021. There are 272 days left in the year. Today’s...

Today in History

By The Associated Press Mar. 25, 2021 04:00 AM EDT
Today in History Today is Thursday, March 25, the 84th day of 2021. There are 281 days left in the year. Today’s...

Former Boston City Council President Kim Janey, 55, takes off her face mask to speak after she was sworn in as Boston's new mayor at City Hall, Wednesday, March 24, 2021, in Boston. Janey, who is the city's first female and first person of color to take the office, replaces Marty Walsh who resigned Monday evening to become President Joe Biden's labor secretary. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
Boston turns historic page with 1st Black, 1st female mayor

By Steve Leblanc Mar. 24, 2021 01:31 PM EDT

This photo provided by Perseus Books shows the book cover of “Moon U.S. Civil Rights Trail: A Traveler’s Guide to the People, Places and Events That Made the Movement” From the site where enslaved Africans entered America via the port at Charleston, South Carolina to key cities in Alabama's civil rights movement to Jackson, Mississippi, where Medgar Evers was killed, "Moon U.S. Civil Rights Trail: A Traveler's Guide to the People, Places and Events That Made the Movement" gives readers an in-depth look at past events and shows how eerily similar those events mirror the present. (via AP)
The US Civil Rights Trail from SC to Mississippi and more

By Chevel Johnson Mar. 21, 2021 08:23 AM EDT

Law enforcement officials confer outside a massage parlor following a shooting on Tuesday, March 16, 2021, in Atlanta. Shootings at two massage parlors in Atlanta and one in the suburbs have left multiple people dead, many of them women of Asian descent, authorities said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
Public reaction to killings at Atlanta-area massage parlors

By The Associated Press Mar. 17, 2021 05:04 PM EDT

Today in History

By The Associated Press Mar. 10, 2021 12:00 AM EST
Today in History Today is Wednesday, March 10, the 69th day of 2021. There are 296 days left in the year. Today’s...

Doramise Moreau stands next to the new car she received for her community service at Notre Dame d'Haiti Catholic Church, Monday, March 8, 2021, in Miami. Moreau is a part-time janitor at a technical school. She spends most of her time shopping for ingredients and helping to cook meals for 1,000 to 1,500 people a week that show up for food at the church. Community leaders including pastors nominate residents known for community service to receive the cars. The cars are purchased wholesale through a grant and Morea pays $125 a month for three years until she owns the car. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Miami janitor quietly feeds thousands, and love's the reason

By Kelli Kennedy Mar. 09, 2021 10:00 AM EST

FILE - In this March 4, 1990, file photo, civil rights figures lead marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the recreation of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march in Selma, Ala. From left are Hosea Williams of Atlanta, Georgia Congressman John Lewis, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Evelyn Lowery, SCLC President Joseph Lowery and Coretta Scott King. This Sunday, March 7, 2021, marks the 56th anniversary of those marches and "Bloody Sunday," when more than 500 demonstrators gathered on March 7, 1965, to demand the right to vote and cross Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge. They were met by dozens of state troopers and many were severely beaten. (AP Photo/Jamie Sturtevant, File)
Bloody Sunday memorial honors late civil rights giants

Mar. 07, 2021 10:17 AM EST