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This month I pay personal tribute to the cloud of witnesses in the American Freedom Movement on whose shoulders I stand.

Reflect on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s enduring legacy, unity, and inspiration through this thoughtful celebration.

Two decades before founding the American Red Cross, Clara Barton was a humanitarian without a cause.

These words are carved into the cement plaque that rests outside room 306 of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. They mark the place where Martin Luther

We asked the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change for a list of book recommendations for upcoming MLK Day.

AMHERST — He was, as one admirer put it, an “artful biographer” who wedded careful research with a novelist’s storytelling skill to write movingly about a number of famous American figures: Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Clara Barton and...

AMHERST — He was, as one admirer put it, an “artful biographer” who wedded careful research with a novelist’s storytelling skill to write movingly about a number of famous American figures: Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Clara Barton and...

AMHERST — Popular teacher, eminent biographer, respected Civil War historian: Stephen Oates wore a number of hats, all of them with style.The former University of Massachusetts Amherst professor died a little over a year ago at age 85. Now friends,...

AMHERST — Popular teacher, eminent biographer, respected Civil War historian: Stephen Oates wore a number of hats, all of them with style.The former University of Massachusetts Amherst professor died a little over a year ago at age 85. Now friends,...

In a quartet of biographies, he explored how slavery and racial oppression could exist in a land based on the ideals of the Declaration of Independence.