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The son of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as family members of a condemned Alabama inmate, are asking the governor to to stop the execution of the man who’s convicted in the 2004 killing of three police officers but wasn’t the trigger man.

A new exhibit opening at Chicago’s DuSable Museum of African American History Friday is recreating the 1963 march on Washington D.C. using virtual reality. The experimental exhibit is coming to Chicago in hopes of placing participants right in the middle of all the action.  “The messages that happened that day resonates today just as loudly as they did then,”...

The NAACP is honoring John Lewis for his Congressional service and long history as a civil rights activist.

Local and state dignitaries gathered Monday morning for the 50th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Breakfast at the Boston Convention Center. Rev. Michael Curry of the Episcopal Church, who presided over the wedding of Megan Markel and Prince Harry, made the keynote address. “Lord be with us to renew our strength and committee with the confidence in our hears…

Gov. Charlie Baker, Rep. Ayanna Pressley and more will participate in a fireside chat to talk about Dr. King’s legacy.

An incoming storm could bring the cold stuff, or we could be stuck with rain again. Pamela Gardner has the latest on what to expect for snow in New England.

Overnight Tuesday: Light wind, partly cloudy. Lows in the 20s, 10s North. Wednesday: Fair with a cool breeze. Highs around 40.

The organization King Boston said Monday it has selected “The Embrace” by artist Hank Willis Thomas and MASS Design Group to be installed on the historic Boston Common.

Several inches of snow are already on the ground in some areas Sunday morning as a winter storm moves through New England. While the overnight snowfall does NOT portend a trend to a faster, more aggressive storm, it does underscore how tricky and humbling this latest round of winter weather will be.

Elected officials, religious leaders, music stars and Detroit sports heroes gathered Monday at a church to remember longtime U.S. Rep. John Conyers. Former President Bill Clinton, civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer were among the speakers at Conyers’ funeral at Greater Grace Temple in Detroit. They were joined by several current and former...

Alabama’s capital, a city once known as the cradle of the Confederacy and later the birthplace of the civil rights movement, elected its first African American mayor Tuesday. Probate Judge Steven Reed, 45, clasped the history-making victory to be elected the next mayor of Montgomery after defeating businessman David Woods by a decisive margin. Reed won about 67% of the...

An icon from the country’s civil rights movement paid a visit to Vermont Tuesday, meeting with students who have been learning about his contributions to history. “We are one people — we are one family,” Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, told a crowd at downtown Burlington’s Flynn Center for the Performing Arts.

Rep. John Lewis was in Vermont to meet with students learning about his contributions to social change.

It started out as a joke but a petition to rename the Fifth Avenue block by Trump Tower to “President Barack H. Obama Avenue” had more than 302,000 signatures by Thursday afternoon — and a new mission calling for 325,000 signatures after the previous goal was surpassed.

A group of students from Spelman and Morehouse colleges who’ve been studying Michelle Obama’s memoir, “Becoming,” had a surprise visitor to discuss the work — the former first lady herself. Obama came to Spelman to talk with the students Saturday about the best-selling book ahead of her sold-out appearance Saturday night at State Farm Arena in downtown Atlanta. Obama encouraged...