The award-winning journalist and historian delivered the University’s 2026 Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture, applying historical lessons to present-day challenges and celebrating the power of ordinary ...

At 88, J.T. Johnson has only recently realized he has dyslexia, a common learning disability affecting up to one in five Americans. He has found assistance in Dysolve, a new computer program powered ...

First known as the wife of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., she later became an avid proselytizer for his vision of peace ...

The 2026 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Children’s Book Drive is already underway, but there’s still more than a month left to donate. The statewide event runs from February 23 through ...

Elementary school students at Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary School swapped out their pencils for chopsticks during their lunch time.

After a long career of fighting for civil rights, the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. is visiting his home for one last time to lie in ...

Civil rights leader J.T. Johnson didn't know he had dyslexia and hid his illiteracy. Now with the help of an AI program, he's ...

He will lie in repose this week at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition in Chicago before being honored in South Carolina.

It was the summer of 1966. I completed my first year at Bethany Theological Seminary in affluent Oak Brook, Illinois. My home for the summer was in a Black inner-city neighborhood on the West Side of ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Back in February 2010, the radio show State of the Re:Union, created by Al Letson, ...

12:55 p.m. Feb. 17, 2026: This story updated with additional comments and photos. CHICAGO — The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate ...

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