Martin Luther King Jr. News and Stories

Read Martin Luther King Jr.’s Advice to a Closeted Teen

10 years before the Stonewall uprising, Martin Luther King Jr. gave advice to a scared, closeted teen… but was it good advice?

American Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin on the ‘Absolute Necessity’ to Be Openly Gay

In a recently unearthed recording of a mid-1980s interview, he shares his thoughts on the importance of being openly gay

In 1968, Comic Book Master Stan Lee Wrote an Essay Calling Bigotry a Plague on the World

This short essay about the dangers of hate appeared in a comic book during the peak of the Civil Rights Movement

A Texas MLK Day Parade Will Honor the State’s Transphobic Governor as Grand Marshal

A Texas MLK Day parade will honor the state’s Governor Greg Abbott, a man who supports discriminatory policies against poor people of color and queers