For some communities, the drive to name public spaces in King’s name has taken years as well as heated debates, boycotts, petition drives, marches and even litigation.
Three women in Iran spoke to the BBC by phone this week about their hopes and concerns for their country on the eve of a presidential election.
Medgar Evers, a NAACP field secretary and civil rights activist, was shot in the back at his home in 1963. The murder is considered a turning point in the Civil Rghts movement, in part thanks to the artists who used his name as a rallying cry. Fifty years later, we remember Evers through the music he inspired.
Dorothy Height, a veteran civil rights leader, has died at the age of 98. Height started her activism as a teenager marching in New York City's Times Square and became one of the movement's most important female leaders.
Exploring the accomplishments of, and challenges for the NAACP as it celebrates its 100-year anniversary.
To commemorate the NAACP's Centennial, The Takeaway speaks to Sarah Staten, who was one of the female activists who led the first branch of the NAACP in Franklin County, a rural area of 40,000 people in the southern part of Middle Tennessee.