The CEO of activism organization Global Citizen says the sense of urgency that younger generations bring to solving international challenges needs to be nurtured in the rest of the world.

A 34-year-old Titusville man riding a motorcycle through Melbourne died in a crash with a turning SUV, according to police.

The Rev. William “Bill” Lawson, a longtime pastor and civil rights leader who helped desegregate Houston, Texas, and worked with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement, has died.

North Carolina Lt. Gov Mark Robinson has received Donald Trump’s formal endorsement in his bid for governor, several months after the former president pledged to do so.

Ned Blackhawk’s “The Rediscovery of America,” winner last fall of a National Book Award, is a finalist for a history honor presented by the J.

The new season of National Geographic’s “Genius” anthology series focuses on two civil rights legends, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.

We’re starting off our year celebrating the life and works of Martin Luther King Jr., one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement.

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter says her late brother was a fierce and visionary steward of their father’s legacy.

Dexter Scott King, the younger son of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, has died after battling prostate cancer.

The 33rd annual Arthur "Pappy" Kennedy Prayer Breakfast starts with a powerful message.

Here's your crazy weather forecast for Central Florida.

If you're looking for a way to observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day, there are plenty of opportunities across Central Florida.

As members of a historic African-American Fraternity gather to honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., they are also getting results for their community and empowering young people through scholastic recognition.

With the 75th edition of the Emmy Awards coming Monday, the Television Academy has ranked the 75 Most Impactful Television Moments.

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter says the world urgently needs to study and adopt her father’s philosophy of nonviolence to avoid self-destruction.

Central Florida is set to recognize the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. with several celebrations.

If you have a memory, experience or just want to share a thought about Martin Luther King, Jr. we want to hear from you.

The Eagles and the NFL might still be the overwhelming sports favorites at Calvary Baptist church just outside Philadelphia.

Alabama marks the 60th anniversary of the bombing of a church that killed four Black girls.

Alabama on Friday will mark the 60th anniversary of the 1963 bombing at 16th Street Baptist Church that killed four girls.

President Joe Biden is calling for action to end the type of “hate-fueled violence” that authorities say motivated a white man to fatally shoot three Black people at a Florida store over the weekend.

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will observe Monday's 60th anniversary of the March on Washington by meeting with organizers and relatives of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The White House says all of King’s children have been invited.

Fencing and construction workers greet visitors to the Lincoln Memorial, signaling the monument to the nation’s 16th president is a work in progress.

Sixty years ago, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. issued his resounding call for racial harmony that set off decades of push and pull toward progress.

The March on Washington of 1963 is remembered most for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.

Christine King Farris, the last living sibling of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has died.

People at the epicenter of the fight for voting rights six decades ago are reflecting on the times and their struggles.

Jimmy Carter is now 98 years old as he receives hospice care.

Alabama and Mississippi closed government offices on Monday for Confederate Memorial Day as efforts have stalled to abolish or rename Confederate holidays.

An Alabama home where Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders planned the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches has been sold to a historical museum in Michigan and will be moved to a site near Detroit for preservation.

Roslyn Pope has died aged 84.

A president's State of the Union address has a predictable formula.

Tyre Nichols’ mother and Memphis police chief Cerelyn “CJ” Davis are two women caught on different sides of a tragedy.

This week’s new entertainment releases include an album from Paramore that shows off the band's funkier side, the Academy Award-nominated documentary “All That Breathes” about Indian brothers who heal birds of prey, and two rom-coms just in time for Valentine's Day — “Your Place or Mine” on Netflix and “Somebody I Used to Know” on Amazon Prime Video.

On the eve of the funeral for Tyre Nichols, who died days after a brutal beating by Memphis police officers, his family are sharing remembrances and expressing grief.

Police video of the deadly beating of Tyre Nichols by officers in Memphis, Tennessee, is hard to watch.

Democratic congresswoman Elissa Slotkin of Michigan is taking steps toward seeking the U.S. Senate seat held by retiring Democrat Debbie Stabenow.

People came together at Rollins College on Monday evening to honor Dr. Martin Luther King.

On Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a nonprofit called The Mission Continues worked to honor Dr. King's legacy of service.

The year was 1964 when Dr Martin Luther King Jr., made his first and only stop to Orlando.

Events all over Central Florida were held on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday to honor the work of the iconic civil rights leader.

For the first time in two years, community and faith leaders gathered in person for the celebration of Orlando's first Black elected official.

Many say the fight for civil rights is not over

The CEO of the King Center in Atlanta says she hopes to spur progress during this year's observances of Martin Luther King Jr. Day by helping more Americans personalize the struggle for racial equity and harmony.

Central Florida recognizes the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. with several celebrations around town.

News 6 wants you to share your memories of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The Rev. Al Sharpton has been called a lot of names in his public life.

Jim Stewart, the white Tennessee farm boy and fiddle player who co-founded the influential Stax Records with his sister in a Black, inner-city Memphis neighborhood and helped build the soulful “Memphis sound,” has died at age 92.

Raphael Warnock is the first Black U.S. senator from Georgia, having broken the color barrier with a special election victory in January 2021.

Distaste for Herschel Walker appears to be bolstering Democratic enthusiasm for Sen. Raphael Warnock in Georgia's Tuesday runoff.

Early in-person voting for the nation's last U.S. Senate seat is underway statewide in Georgia.

Herschel Walker warns that “spiritual warfare” has entangled America and the Republican nominee in Georgia’s Senate race offers himself to voters as a “warrior for God.”.

A waiting and vetting period would be built into gun purchases in Oregon if a measure on the November statewide ballot passes.

Herschel Walker pitches himself as a politician who can bridge America’s racial and cultural divides.

Democratic U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock is maintaining his cash lead in Georgia over Republican challenger Herschel Walker.

Congressional districts that a federal court panel said were unconstitutional because they dilute representation for Black voters in Alabama are nevertheless being used for the November election after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed them.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed more than a dozen laws aiming to make California an abortion sanctuary state.

A performance by master keyboardist Booker T.

The Oprah Winfrey-produced documentary “Sidney” has arrived eight months after the death of Sidney Poitier.

Tyler Perry has directed his first screenplay, 27 years after writing it.

By mid-January, LeBron James could be the NBA’s scoring king.

Nichelle Nichols has died.

Civil rights leader and trailblazing educator Mary McLeod Bethune has became the first Black person elevated by a state for recognition in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall.

President Joe Biden has presented the nation's highest civilian honor to 17 people, including gymnast Simone Biles and the late Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain.

Nate Looney is a Black man who is also an observant, kippah-wearing Jew.

“All men are created equal.”.

The White House says President Joe Biden will present the nation's highest civilian honor to 17 people, including gymnast Simone Biles, actor Denzel Washington and the late Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, with whom Biden served in the Senate.

Sean “Diddy” Combs spoke about his own dream like the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. while accepting the highest honor at the BET Awards.

On the eve of Juneteenth, the Tribeca Festival came to a close with the Rev_ Al Sharpton documentary “Loudmouth.”.

Legendary civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and three other men had their convictions vacated posthumously.

A key aide to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. says she’s deeply saddened by the hate crimes that are terrorizing people across America.

Elected leaders in Kansas convened community groups and held town hall conversations after demonstrators protested George Floyd’s death statewide.

New exhibits at museums in Ohio and California are celebrating the upcoming centenary of the birth of Charles “Sparky” Schulz, the man who created the comic strip Peanuts.

Maroon 5 and Usher will headline a benefit concert in Atlanta to honor the legacy of the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis.

An Alabama church that was at the center of the voting rights movement in the 1960s is now eaten up by termites and damaged by water leaks.

Among the scathing findings of an investigation launched after the police killing of George Floyd is that the Minneapolis Police Department used covert or fake social media accounts to monitor Black activists and organizations.

Last Friday, on Earth Day, a 50-year-old photographer and climate-change activist named Wynn Bruce set himself on fire outside the U.S. Supreme Court.

A Michigan police officer who killed Patrick Lyoya after a traffic stop pressed the gun against the Black man’s head when firing the fatal shot.

Georgia Republican Herschel Walker says his U.S. Senate campaign raised $5.5 million in the first three months of 2022.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's speech at the White House went to the heart of both the triumphs and struggles of Black Americans in her lifetime.

Lawmakers erupted in cheers after Vice President Kamala Harris announced the confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.

Playing James Taylor’s “Never Die Young” and going back to songs that marked the antiwar movement in the 1960s, Japanese author Haruki Murakami added his voice to protests against the war in Ukraine with a special edition of his Tokyo radio show.

In the lead-up to his 90th birthday, civil rights icon Andrew Young delivered a sermon that lamented the war in Ukraine and “rancor” in the world.

During a commemoration of the 1965 voting rights marches from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, Elliott Smith's great-aunt pushed him across the iconic Edmund Pettus Bridge in a stroller.

Before Trayvon Martin, George Floyd, Michael Brown, Breonna Taylor and other Black people died at the hands of white police officers or self-appointed vigilantes, there was Martin Lee Anderson.

More than five years after a Black congregation merged with a mostly white North Carolina church, members of The Refuge Church continue striving to be an example of unity and racial reconciliation in the American South.

Among Catholic priests in the United States, few are African American and few are openly gay.

Film scholar Jacqueline Stewart makes a rich contribution to TCM for Black History Month.

Atlanta’s leaders are rethinking plans to install a statue representing a Native American man lauded as a “co-founder of Georgia” following an Associated Press report on the project.

A little-known but important piece of American history stands vacant on a two-lane highway in rural western Alabama.

There’s a problem with putting someone on a pedestal: Exposed on all sides, a hero to some can be seen as a traitor to others.

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Thich Nhat Hanh, the revered Zen Buddhist monk who helped spread the practice of mindfulness in the West and socially engaged Buddhism in the East, has died.

Democrats are picking up the pieces after the collapse of their sweeping voting rights legislation.

On Saturday, the security director of the Roth Family Jewish Community Center (JCC) in Maitland was in touch with federal law enforcement while monitoring the hostage standoff at a synagogue in Texas, trying to determine if the attack was isolated or a larger threat to Jewish people.

Central Florida residents are joining federal leaders and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s family calling for action on two bills aimed at protecting voting rights.

While Monday was a day off for students and some parents, it was a day on for dozens who volunteered at Lake Fran to pick up trash and give back to the community.

The U.S. Senate’s only Black Republican is putting forth what he characterizes as a positive response to partisan rhetoric on race that he’s best-positioned to rebut.

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s eldest son has condemned the inaction of federal lawmakers on voting rights.

NBA players officially began participating in games that were scheduled to celebrate and honor the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1986 when the federal holiday commemorating the civil-rights leader was observed for the first time.