The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Commission, Inc. will again host a number of events in recognition of the life ...

Journalist and scholar Dr. Jelani Cobb will be the keynote speaker for the University of Evansville's William G. and Rose ...

Lesson of the Day by Martin Luther King, Jr. explains the meaning of making a career of humanity. It traces Martin Luther ...

From accidental lab discoveries to decades-long fights for human rights, these Nobel Prize winners made contributions so ...

When Martin Luther King Jr.‘s birthday and holiday roll around each year, one thing I love to see are photos of Dr. King simply living his life with joy. Playing pool. Sharing a laugh. We know that he ...

The first World AIDS Day was observed on December 1, 1988. George H. W. Bush was newly elected president, and I was a freshman at NYU about to turn 18 years old. The World Health Organization had ...

A secret is percolating at dinner parties, salons, and cocktail gatherings among the august New York City elite. It’s whispered in the circles of financial masters of the universe, Hollywood stars, ...

Ruth Wilson is returning as Alice Morgan in the new Netflix Luther movie alongside Idris Elba, despite her character’s apparent death at the end of Season 5. Wilson expresses her enthusiasm for ...

In a landmark paper in Science on May 20, 1983, researchers reported they had isolated a “retrovirus” from a patient at risk of developing AIDS. The work, led by French virologists Françoise ...

There was a distinct lack of federally coordinated action on AIDS for several key years right at the beginning of the epidemic, when it really mattered. Then-President Ronald Reagan couldn’t even ...

The State Department will no longer commemorate World AIDS Day with public messaging, ending a decades-long tradition of the administration recognizing those who have died of the disease and raising ...