Martin Luther King

Meet The Fearless Cook Who Secretly Fed — And Funded — The Civil Rights Movement

8:16am January 15, 2018

by Maria Godoy

Georgia Gilmore organized black women to cook without raising the suspicions of their white employers, and poured the proceeds into an alternative transportation system for Montgomery bus boycotters.

The nonviolent actions of Dr. King inspired young Kennedy Odede. In this March 21, 1965 file photo, King leads a civil rights march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., to protest voting laws.

How Martin Luther King Jr. Changed The Life Of A Street Kid In Kenya

7:00am January 15, 2017

by Marc Silver

Kennedy Odede was living on the streets, getting into fights. He was looking for hope. And he found it in the story of Martin Luther King Jr.

Rep. Louis Stokes was the dean of the Ohio congressional delegation until he stepped down in 1999.

Louis Stokes, Ohio's First African-American U.S. Congressman, Dies At 90

3:29pm August 19, 2015

by Brakkton Booker

Stokes represented Ohio for 15 terms. He also served as chairman of the House select committee investigating the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.

Historian Peniel Joseph says criticism of the film Selma as historically inaccurate is misguided, and that the movie correctly portrays African-Americans as the drivers of the civil rights movement.

'Selma' Backlash Misses The Point

1:42pm January 12, 2015

by Peniel Joseph

Historian Peniel Joseph says Selma is the first major film about civil rights history that properly honors the contributions of the movement's African-American foot soldiers.