Katori Hall’s controversial play about Martin Luther King Jr.’s final night gets a superb production by Oakland Theater ...

The documentary series 'Who Killed Malcolm X?' played a role in the exoneration of two men accused of killing the leader. Here is how to watch it.

Author Patrick Parr will speak about Malcolm X and Martin Luther King in a Feb. 12 campus event focused on early challenges that shaped both leaders.

Boston, a city deeply influential in the fight for civil and human rights, is a landscape where the legacies of two ...

As we observe Black History Month 2026, it is imperative to address two truths. First, “they” did not give us the shortest month of the year. Carter G. Woodson started Negro History Week in 1926 and ...

Every block has a story. In Central Harlem, those stories are now etched into history and into the streets. Leaders and ...

This country has long elevated Martin Luther King, Jr. as the admirable voice of peace, while positioning Malcolm X as dangerous, divisive and radical. This contrast was never accidental.

In observance of America’s Black History Month, I am again reproducing a column I wrote on March 2, 2014, on an African American theme that I believe readers will find engaging.

Join the Social Science Department for a special presentation in honor of Black History Month: ...

While the end of Oakland Theater Project's production of "The Mountaintop"-- Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Katori Hall's imagining of the last night of Martin Luther King Jr.'s life -- is ...

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