Nation Apr 06 Harry Belafonte: To realize Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream, white America needs to change course By PBS NewsHour
Nation Apr 05 Watch 6:46 Memphis activist who remembers Martin Luther King Jr.’s last days is still fighting In Martin Luther King Jr.’s final days, he traveled to Memphis to lend his voice to the city's black sanitation workers, who were protesting poor working conditions. Fred Davis, who helped negotiate an end to the strike, marched with King… By PBS NewsHour
Nation Apr 04 Watch 5:56 50 years on, Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy lives out loud On April 4, 1968, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. -- in Memphis, Tennessee, to support striking sanitation workers -- was shot to death on a hotel balcony. What followed was a national reckoning and the greatest wave of social… By PBS NewsHour
Nation Apr 04 Watch 15:38 Where the march for civil rights stands today Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle for Americans' civil rights -- and his assassination 50 years ago in Memphis -- changed the world. Judy Woodruff sits down with civil rights activist Vernon Jordan, syndicated columnist Connie Schultz, Vann Newkirk of The… By PBS NewsHour
Arts Jul 28 Watch Artists reflect pain and consequences of Detroit riots Fifty years since Detroit devolved into a five-day period of violence and unrest between the National Guard and the city’s black citizens, known as the 1967 riots, some of the city's leading cultural institutions are asking questions and using art… By PBS NewsHour
Nov 15 5 journalists who got their start covering the JFK assassination By Bridget Shirvell On Nov. 22, 1963, America was changed forever. For the first time, a wide television audience witnessed the unfolding of a national tragedy. Fifty years later, we still remember the events of that fateful day, and the men who… Continue reading