Mackey King News Today

The Easton NAACP celebrates a milestone with a woman who made history.

In front of the crowds and the cameras, the speeches of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other men loomed large 60 years ago at the March on Washington. But the women, including those of faith, who played roles in its organization, its music and its news coverage were mostly left off the official program.

A Maryland woman who dedicated her life to civil rights is receiving national recognition.

King wrote the letter in 1963 as a response to eight clergymen who criticized his nonviolent demonstrations against segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, but he did not bring that letter to life by himself.

King wrote the letter in 1963 as a response to eight clergymen who criticized his nonviolent demonstrations against segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, but he did not bring that letter to life by himself.

King wrote the letter in 1963 as a response to eight clergymen who criticized his nonviolent demonstrations against segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, but he did not bring that letter to life by himself.

A Maryland woman helped piece together Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "Letter from Birmingham Jail."

A third person living with HIV has been cured using umbilical cord blood stem cells.