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Daughters of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X walk in Actively Black Fashion Week show

In a New York Fashion Week twist, Civil Rights icons walked the runway for the Black-owned athleisure brand, Actively Black. Ruby Bridges, who desegregated her school in Louisiana at the age of six years old in 1960, walked the show last night at the age of 71. Before she came out onto the runway, a video played of the racist reactions to her activism when she was just a child, and a child actor walked the runway with two older […]

todaySeptember 14, 2025

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Family of Martin Luther King, Jr. makes request after Trump declassifies assassination files

Hours after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to declassify documents detailing the FBI’s investigation of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.‘s 1968 assassination, the civil rights leader’s family revealed in a statement that they had found out about the order signing the day of. “Today, our family has learned that President Trump has ordered the declassification of the remaining records pertaining to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy, and our father, Rev. Dr. […]

todayJanuary 23, 2025 1

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Bernice King explains why she’s ‘glad’ Trump’s inauguration is on Martin Luther King Day

When Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th president of the United States at his inauguration on Jan. 20, 2025, it will coincidentally fall on the federal holiday that honors Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  Supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump’s Democratic opponent in the 2024 presidential election, had hoped that the day would instead mark a historic moment in Black history that would’ve seen Harris sworn in as the first Black female president and only the second […]

todayNovember 25, 2024

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Watch: Martin Luther King III says this is how America should honor his father this MLK Day

If Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. were alive today, he would’ve turned 95 years old on Jan. 15. TheGrio‘s Washington Bureau Chief April Ryan talked to Dr. King’s eldest son and namesake, Martin Luther King III, who said his father’s birthday, now a federal holiday, is not just a celebration. King III also shared how the nation should remember his father, who is celebrated as one of the nation’s most iconic civil rights leaders in the world. Never miss a […]

todayJanuary 15, 2024