Topic: Martin Luther King Jr.

In a rousing conversation at the 2024 Ideas We Should Steal Festival, MLK biographers Jonathan Eig and Michael Eric Dyson share what’s still true about the America that the “radical” and “woke” King fought for

No matter where we stand in the racial, economic or social ladder, a commitment to excellence, human dignity,and an unwavering pursuit of justice are how we live up to the ideals of the Civil Rights icon celebrated Monday

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a perfect opportunity to engage with other Philadelphia citizens on civic projects that matter. Volunteer. Visit a museum. Build peace on MLK Day

A Kensington community leader refuses to share the Civil Rights icon’s celebration with an inauguration that validates the January 6, 2021 insurrection

In an excerpt from the bestselling King: A Life, the iconic moral leader attends Chester’s Crozer Theological Seminary, takes part in his first civil rights confrontation (in a Maple Shade, New Jersey bar!) and loses his heart … to a White woman

Hope may be infinite, as the Civil Rights icon told us. But it requires action

July 4th means different things to different Americans. Here, a host of Independence Day perspectives — from Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Ronald Reagan and more — that remind us what it means to be free

Thousands of Philadelphians participated in volunteer work on Monday for MLK Day of Service. Here’s a look at some of them.

The debate over Martin Luther King, Jr., on a day of service in his memory is a good thing, except for what it leaves out

Today we honor the great American pacifist. But it turns out that King’s relationship to guns was more complicated than you might expect.