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?
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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
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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
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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
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