Festivities kicked off Friday with the ALA Gives Back community initiative where attendees volunteered at the Burton Barr Central Library assembling seed packets for the seed library. Later, the ALA ...

Time to stock the bookcase! Learn about the book that won the coveted Newbery Medal and other children's and young adult ...

Andrew Young III, son of civil-rights pioneer Andrew Young II, reflects on the inauguration of President Barack Obama on ...

This year's Caldecott medal went to a book about an older sister frustrated when her baby brother "helps." The Newbery went ...

The American Library Association (ALA) today announced the top books, digital media, video and audio books for children and ...

known as “Daddy King,” was an advisor and confidant, guiding Carter on policies to advance civil rights. Coretta Scott King, Andrew Young, and other civil rights leaders saw Carter as someone who ...

A former Stanford University history professor who saw Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. give his famous "I Have a Dream" speech and later published the slain civil rights leader's papers at the request of ...

Donna Brazile makes sense of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s legacy as President Biden leaves office and President Trump takes ...

You've no doubt seen countless historical footage of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. over the decades, but you can better get to know the man behind the movement in this Emmy-winning 2018 HBO documentary, ...

ATLANTA — Former Atlanta mayor and civil rights leader Andrew ... Young made his place in the civil rights movement as a "field general," as he has described it, to Martin Luther King, Jr ...

He was passionate about fighting for racial justice from a young age. In "The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.," Dr ... who suggested he meet Coretta Scott. The couple had their very ...

His wife, Coretta Scott King, played an integral part behind the scenes of the civil rights movement. In this report from 2006 shortly after her death, TV9’s Dave Franzman talked to several ...