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Juneteenth Festival 2024 in Rochester: What to know about parade and activities
Gannett via AOL· 2 days agoOn June 15, the Greater Rochester Martin Luther King Jr. Commission celebrates 60 years of...
Borscht Belt event to honor MLK's speech at Concord Hotel in 1968 - Mid Hudson News
Mid Hudson News· 2 days agoKIAMESHA LAKE – On March 25th, 1968, 10 days before he was assassinated, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr....
Rev. James Lawson, civil rights leader who led Nashville lunch counter sit-ins and Freedom Rides,...
LA Times via Yahoo News· 3 days agoLawson was recruited by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Lawson spent decades in Los Angeles working...
Civil rights leader James Lawson, who learned from Gandhi, used nonviolent resistance and the ‘power...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 4 hours agoCivil rights activist James M. Lawson Jr. speaks in Murfreesboro, Tenn., in 2015. AP Photo/Mark...
You might see picketers today outside a Tacoma hospital. Here’s what’s happening
Tacoma News Tribune via Yahoo News· 20 hours agoA union representing MultiCare workers announced an informational picket Wednesday (June 12) in...
Juneteenth 2024: Celebrate in Knoxville with parade, exhibits, stories of emancipation
Knoxville News Sentinel· 8 hours agoJuneteenth ‒ also known as Jubilee Day, Emancipation Day and Freedom Day ‒ falls on a Wednesday this...
Need something to do this weekend? How about food trucks, rockets and skating with Dad?
The Courier & Press via Yahoo News· 8 hours agoLooking for something to do in the Tri-State this weekend? Check out our list of events and...
MLK Community Hospital at Risk of Closure Starting with Maternity Ward - Los Angeles Sentinel
Los Angeles Sentinel· 24 hours agoSeventeen maternity wards have closed in L.A. County over the past decade and now, the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Healthcare (MLKCH) is not only facing a looming threat to its maternity ...
James Lawson, US civil rights leader who championed nonviolence, dies at 95
Reuters via Yahoo News· 3 days agoJames Lawson, a prominent civil rights leader whose advocacy of nonviolent protest influenced Martin...
Historic building near Atlanta University Center catches fire
WSB Cox articles via Yahoo News· 5 hours agoA building near the Atlanta University Center caught fire on Thursday morning. Atlanta fire crews...