Progressives don't have the luxury of merely singing the old hymns or citing the old speeches. There are battles to fight to preserve hard-won gains. Martin Luther King was no naive dreamer. But he always ...
Gov. Asa Hutchison (R) says of state's Martin Luther King, Robert E. Lee joint holiday: "They need to be distinguished and separate."
When Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "Mountaintop" sermon in Memphis in 1968, he probably had not dared to dream of the astonishing racial progress that would be made after his death.
Will the Supreme Court upend another key element of Dr. King's legacy?
Today the Weekend Reader brings you Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act by Clay Risen, editor of The New York Times op-ed section. Bill of the Century details the arduous mission of civil ...
By Jim Galloway and Ernie Suggs, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ATLANTA — The family of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has served notice to Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal that it wants input into any monument to ...
This Sunday on the National Mall, the nation dedicates a monument to, arguably, the greatest American of the 20th century. It is, as Lincoln said at another dedication, altogether fitting and proper that we should ...
Jeff Danziger lives in New York City. He is represented by CWS Syndicate and the Washington Post Writers Group. He is the recipient of the Herblock Prize and the Thomas Nast (Landau) Prize. He served ...