Hotel magnate Conrad Hilton fulfilled his dream to purchase the Waldorf-Astoria in 1949. He called the luxury hotel on Park ...

And he also showed photos of his visit to another iconic Memphis location: the former Lorraine Motel, where civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968. Warner and ...

“It took Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington to make [jeans] popular,” writes the art historian Caroline A. Jones. “It was here that civil rights activists were photographed ...

"They expand the sense of what art can be." The new show (quilts ... free-form squares. Martin Luther King Jr. came to Young's hometown of Gee's Bend, Alabama, around that time.

Jeffrey challenged McGuire’s focus on liberal politics and civil rights, proposing to write his class research project on plagiarism in Martin Luther King Jr.’s speeches and saying that his ...

In this multi-part documentary series, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the last 50 years of African American history. This clip takes a look at the recent ... His book, "The Prophets" inspired Martin ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has been dead almost 60 years, but his philosophy — his lifelong commitment to "nonviolent direction action" to effect political change — remains relevant as a ...