A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. Talk about a one-hit wonder. On May 3, 1937, ...

At 15, Martin Luther King Jr. joined a work expedition to a Connecticut tobacco farm. The experience was life changing.

In the 1970s, he filed a trailblazing lawsuit that cleared the way for him to be the first Black person elected to the city’s ...

Lerone Martin's book follows the civil rights leader through childhood, escaping Jim Crow life working in Connecticut and ...

Every week, Oprah is setting an intention exclusively for Oprah Daily Insiders, with reflections on topics like letting go, ...

A race for Georgia’s 13th Congressional District started with a crowded field of candidates who had hoped to unseat a longtime lawmaker, but after the late U.S. Rep. David Scott’s death in April, the ...

Colleges nationwide are releasing final details for their spring 2026 commencement ceremonies, with schedules, speakers and honorary degree recipients now confirmed. The season’s celebrations come ...

Rev. Stephen Green of Greater Allen AME Cathedral discusses faith-based organizing, the liberating gospel, and the Black ...