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President Donald Trump speaks at the Future Investment Initiative (FII) Institute summit in Miami Beach, Fla., Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. (Pool via AP)

Trump holds Black History Month event as some agencies skip recognition after anti-DEI order

President Donald Trump marked Black History Month at the White House on Thursday by making an appearance at a celebratory reception with a surprise guest, golf legend Tiger Woods, while calling out other athletes in attendance and marveling at the size of the crowd.
February 21
Family members and activists protest the death of Cornelius Taylor, an unhoused man killed when the city cleared an encampment last week, in front of City Hall in Atlanta on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025. (Arvin Temkar/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Atlanta rethinks clearing homeless camps after a man is crushed inside his tent

January 31
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth arrives at the Pentagon, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025 in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Pentagon agency pauses celebrations for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Black History Month and more

January 29
Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., arrives before the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

Conservatives of color have lofty expectations for Trump’s second term

January 25
President Donald Trump holds a signed an executive order regarding the declassification and release of records relating to the assassinations of former President John F. Kennedy, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Trump orders release of JFK, RFK and MLK assassination records

January 23

Trump orders release of JFK, RFK and MLK assassination records

The executive order Trump signed Thursday also aims to declassify the remaining federal records relating to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The order is among a flurry of executive actions Trump has quickly taken the first week of his second term. (Produced by Luke Garratt)
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Trump orders declassification of JFK, RFK and MLK Jr. records

The long struggle to establish Martin Luther King Jr. Day

New Orleans attack figures into security plans as Atlanta prepares for college football title game

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Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James looks toward the scoreboard during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Los Angeles Clippers, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025, in Inglewood, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

LeBron James cheers on Ohio State at College Football Playoff championship game

January 21
Pastor of 180 Church Lorenzo Sewell, delivers a benediction after President Donald Trump was sworn in during the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (Saul Loeb/Pool photo via AP)

Who is Lorenzo Sewell, the pastor who referenced King’s ‘dream’ speech in inaugural prayer?

January 20
Garland High School senior Saron Lias carries a poster of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. while marching in the 36th annual MLK Day Parade in Garland, Texas, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

MLK Day at King’s Atlanta congregation features daughter’s warning about anti-woke rhetoric

January 20
This image released by Sony Pictures shows Keke Palmer, left, and SZA in a scene from "One of them Days." (Anne Marie Fox/Sony Pictures via AP)

Keke Palmer comedy ‘One of Them Days’ and ‘Mufasa’ in close race for No. 1

January 19
In this 1960 file photo, Martin Luther King Jr. speaks in Atlanta. (AP File Photo)

Alabama and Mississippi will also honor Robert E. Lee on Martin Luther King Jr. Day

January 19
Passengers depart the Caltrain Norcal MLK Celebration Train in San Francisco on Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, Jan. 15, 2024. (Benjamin Fanjoy/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, File)

The long struggle to establish Martin Luther King Jr. Day

January 15
Opal Lee, left, who helped make Juneteenth a federally recognized holiday, poses with her portrait after it was unveiled in the Texas Senate Chamber, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Opal Lee, ‘grandmother of Juneteenth,’ gets Texas portrait

February 8, 2023
Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., left, talks with Rep. Elissa Slotkin, Monday, Jan. 16, 2023, in Lansing, Mich. Rep. Slotkin is taking steps toward seeking the U.S. Senate seat held by Stabenow who is retiring. Slotkin has quickly shifted from fighting for her political life in the nation's third most-expensive U.S. House race last year to "at the very top" of the Michigan Democrats readying for a 2024 Senate campaign. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Slotkin preps Senate run after winning tough reelection bid

January 26, 2023

Newspaper apologizes for truncated ‘I Have A Dream’ speech

January 18, 2023
This combination of photos shows, Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Aug. 3, 2021, left, and Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker speaking in Perry, Ga., Sept. 25, 2021. Early in-person voting for the last U.S. Senate seat is underway statewide in Georgia's runoff, with Warnock and Democrats looking to get a head start over challenger Walker as Republicans take a more muted approach toward advanced balloting in the final contest of the 2022 midterms. (AP Photo)

Georgia runoff: Early voting for Warnock-Walker round 2

November 29, 2022
FILE - Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., who is the pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, campaigns at a church by the same name in Eatonton, Ga., on Aug. 18, 2022. Warnock and his Republican challenger Herschel Walker both tout faith in their public lives but they offer vastly different visions and applications of Christianity. Warnock hails from the Black church tradition of social action. Walker, who is also Black, aligns more with the cultural conservatism of white evangelicals who have shaped the modern Republicans Party. (AP Photo/Bill Barrow)

Walker, Warnock offer clashing religious messages in Georgia

November 5, 2022
Khadidah Stone stands on the dividing line between her old Alabama congressional District 7, to her right with River City Church, and her new district, District 2, to her left, in downtown Montgomery, Ala., Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022. The line splits Montgomery between two congressional districts and is the subject of a high-stakes case that will go before the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Vasha Hunt)

Black representation in Alabama tested before Supreme Court

October 3, 2022

Bill to name Atlanta post office for John Lewis close to law

September 21, 2022
FILE - Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James (6) controls the ball during an NBA basketball game against the New Orleans Pelicans in Los Angeles, Friday, April 1, 2022. The NBA schedule comes out Wednesday afternoon, Aug. 17, 2022, and it'll provide the first look at, among other things, when LeBron James might pass Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as the NBA's all-time scoring leader. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, File)

NBA schedule has less miles, and LeBron chasing more history

August 17, 2022
Sean "Diddy" Combs arrives at the BET Awards on Sunday, June 26, 2022, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs receives lifetime honor at BET Awards

June 27, 2022
Director Spike Lee, left, and journalist Al Sharpton, right, attend the premiere for "Loudmouth" at the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center during the 2022 Tribeca Festival on Saturday, June 18, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP)

Al Sharpton takes a bow, with Spike, to close out Tribeca

June 19, 2022

Tennessee tourism agency launches civil rights trail podcast

June 14, 2022
Xernona Clayton, a key aide to Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King who helped sustain the civil rights movement in the 1960s, is interviewed in her offices at the Trumpet Foundation in Atlanta, on May 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Sharon Johnson)

Civil rights advocate Xernona Clayton is still ‘fearless’

June 8, 2022
W.J. Monagle votes in the Arkansas primary election at Saint Mark's Baptist church in Little Rock, Ark., on Tuesday, May 24, 2022. (Stephen Swofford/The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette via AP)

Midterm updates | Nguyen in runoff in Democratic SoS primary

May 25, 2022

Alabama law awarding honorary degree to civil rights lawyer

May 7, 2022
FILE -Adam Levine of Maroon 5 performs during halftime of the NFL Super Bowl 53 football game between the Los Angeles Rams and the New England Patriots Sunday, Feb. 3, 2019, in Atlanta. Maroon 5 and Usher will headline a benefit concert in Atlanta to honor the legacy of the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis. The Grammy Award-winning pop band and singer will perform during the Beloved Benefit at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium on July 7, concert officials announced Thursday, May 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Maroon 5, Usher to headline benefit to honor Rep. John Lewis

May 5, 2022
FILE - Josh Mandel, a Republican former Ohio treasurer running for an open U.S. Senate seat in Ohio, speaks during a debate against Morgan Harper, a progressive Democrat, Jan. 27, 2022, in Columbus, Ohio. As early primary voting began in the Midwestern battleground state of Ohio on Tuesday, April 5, 2022, social media users questioned the authenticity of a photo used in a campaign ad run by Mandel. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete, File)

FACT FOCUS: Josh Mandel Senate campaign ad scrutinized

April 6, 2022

Shuttlesworth Day to honor Birmingham civil rights leader

March 13, 2022
Jesse Jackson speaks during a Fight for the Vote Rally at the state capitol in Montgomery, Ala., on Friday March 11, 2022. (Mickey Welsh/The Montgomery Advertiser via AP)

Rally marks anniversary of ’65 voting march

March 12, 2022
Civil rights icon Andrew Young delivers a sermon at First Congregational Church on Wednesday, March 9, 2022, to celebrate his 90th birthday in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Civil rights leader Young, turning 90, decries ‘rancor’

March 9, 2022
FILE - Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., lead a group across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., on March 3, 2013. Vice President Kamala Harris is traveling to Alabama this weekend to commemorate a key moment of the civil rights movement. Harris will speak in Selma at an event marking the 57th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the day in 1965 when white police attacked Black voting rights marchers. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)

Kamala Harris to mark ‘Bloody Sunday’ anniversary in Selma

March 2, 2022
Congregation members worship at The Refuge Church in Kannapolis, N.C., on Sunday, Jan. 30, 2022. More than five years after a Black congregation merged with a mostly white North Carolina church, members of the church continue to want to be an example of unity and racial reconciliation in the American South. (AP Photo/Aron Ranen)

Racial unity: Merged Southern congregation sets an example

February 14, 2022
The Rev. Bryan Massingale gives a sermon on Sunday, Jan. 30, 2022, at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in the Harlem neighborhood of New York. Massingale has received recognition for his work on racial justice, he supports the ordination of women, making celibacy optional for Catholic clergy, and as a gay man, he vocally disagrees with the church's doctrine on same-sex relations.(AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

Black gay priest in NYC challenges Catholicism from within

February 13, 2022
This image included in an FBI affidavit, shows church arson suspect Dushko Vulchev, of Houlton, Maine, allegedly stealing a tire from a car in Springfield, Mass., in December of 2020. Vulchev was indicted by a federal grand jury on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022, on four counts of damaging religious property "because of the race, color, and ethnic characteristics" of those associated with the church. Vulchev has been charged with setting fire to a Massachusetts church with a predominantly Black congregation. (Photo Provided by FBI via AP)

Maine man indicted in burning of Black church

February 10, 2022
The house were Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott were married in 1953 near Marion, Ala., is shown on Monday, Jan. 24, 2022. Long vacant, it's not open to visitors and doesn't have a sign or historical marker. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)

Historic Coretta Scott home where she wed MLK now forgotten

February 10, 2022
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