MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- A fire that severely damaged a historic Black church that served as the headquarters for a 1968 sanitation workers’ strike, which brought the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to ...

King was drawn to Memphis in 1968 to support some 1,300 predominantly Black sanitation workers who went on strike to protest inhumane treatment. Two workers had been crushed in a garbage compactor ...

Both the snow and holidays meant that the sanitation ... workers have been trying to play catchup. “With the holidays, we can schedule that, and we can make plans, but when the winter weather ...

"That continues until today." Following the sanitation workers' strike, Mason partnered with Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta to organize the Black farmworkers' strike. Lynne Kemmer, Community ...

National Guard troops line the streets as Black sanitation workers demonstrate in Memphis on March 29, 1968, days before Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. In his last speech on April 3 ...

Celebrate Black History Month in the Triangle with this guide of stories on its roots in North Carolina, a list of events, Black-owned businesses and restaurants you should know about and much more.