NEW YORK — Monday, Jan. 20, commemorates the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr ... Just four days after King’s assassination in 1968, US Rep. John Conyers of Michigan introduced ...

Lawrence Phillips, founder and CEO of Green Book Global Walk in the footsteps of one of history's most important figures with a visit to the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park.

John Conyers—the longest-serving African-American member of Congress in history—first introduced the “Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for the African-Americans Act,” or United ...

He joined the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, becoming a key lieutenant to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., often responding ... Belafonte dropped by, and John Conyers from Michigan, and ...

The next year, he joined the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the Selma to Montgomery marches ... In addition to his wife, survivors include his four sons, Joel, John, Peter and Micah; two lifetime ...

John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat who died in ... for racial equality under the mentorship of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and nearly lost his life during the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march ...