On a rainy day in late April 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the Boston Common bandstand and addressed a crowd of ...

Arielle Gray's grandfather — then a teenager — joined the march to the Common led by King drawing attention to the racial ...

He added that the "Freedom March" was designed to emphasize that it was a "people’s cause and not just a leader’s cause." On those two Saturdays in 1963, the demonstrators, mostly local ...

On August 28, 1963, more than 250,000 people gathered in the nation’s capital for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The march was the brainchild of longtime civil rights activist and labor ...

Martin Luther King III, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley spoke at the 60th anniversary of Martin ...

An apparent white power march took place in the uptown area of Marion, raising concerns among local residents and business ...

Local organizers plan to mark MLK Jr.'s historic 1965 Freedom Rally in Boston by holding a march of their own.

From freedom rides to freedom marches to leading Freedom Summer. From tear gas to jail cells to brutal, hateful beatings. With truly death-defying sacrifices and an almost irrational, love-fueled ...

The March For Freedom – organised by a coalition of groups – comes after a number of female activists were unlawfully detained by the Taliban in Afghanistan. Over a year since the Taliban ...

The rally included Martin Luther King III as well as other local and state leaders across a variety of sectors.