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If he had survived to turn 81 today, what would Martin Luther King have made of an America in which the racial barrier to the White House ha...

"CNN's Heroes" confers fame on so-called ordinary people reaching out to help others in extraordinary ways, this weekend a 57-...

He has been gone now for more years than he lived but, on the birthday we celebrate today, Martin Luther King Jr. would have been only 80 ye...

Whatever else 2008 was, it was not a slow news year: the longest election campaign ever, a worldwide economic meltdown, natural disasters, s...

The venue for tonight's historic speech may be a mistake, reinforcing Barack Obama's image as a rock star at a time when he has to ...

In unearthing the syllabus and assignments for his seminar in "Current Issues in Racism and the Law" during 12 years of teaching a...

A London gallery next week will show pictures of an American legend, some of them unseen for almost half a century. Taken by my friend Marv...

With Hillary Clinton's chances fading, the issue of race is boiling to the surface, as it did in West Virginia and will again in Kentuck...

Bill Moyers did his best last night on PBS to put Barack Obama's controversial pastor into perspective. He succeeded in showing the man...

Barack Obama ended his speech with the story of a young white woman who worked for his South Carolina campaign. In a discussion of why they ...

Until the ugliness started this month, race and gender were benign issues, at least on the surface, of the Democratic contest as Hillary Cli...

Sooner rather than later ( see below ), Barack Obama has had to confront his twin albatrosses, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and the decidedly s...

Last March 4th, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, arms linked with civil rights leaders, were reenacting the 1965 march in Selma, united in...

The man who died today at the age of 93 wrote about courage and grace under pressure better than anyone of his time. Bill Heinz was idealize...

Those who were perplexed, annoyed and/or enraged by Mrs. Obama's statement that "for the first time in my adult life I'm proud...

On April 3, 1968, the night before he died, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke in a Memphis church and concluded with these words: "Like any...

The following was originally posted a year ago today, January 14, 2007. West Side residents of Chicago now have a U.S. Senator who looks lik...

In the week before his 79th birthday tomorrow, Martin Luther King was in the news again. To make a point about the difference between rheto...

Instead of screaming, as he did after his third-place finish as a candidate in 2004, Howard Dean was in Iowa last night as his party's c...