Martin Luther King Jr. is revered as a civil rights leader who has inspired millions of people around the world. Many historians argue the time he spent in Connecticut as a teenager influenced his life. “Coming from the segregated south, coming from Atlanta where he was never given any respect, obviously humiliated by signs of ‘whites only’, of ‘coloreds only’,…

The NAACP is honoring John Lewis for his Congressional service and long history as a civil rights activist.

Dozens of people gathered outside of Norwich City Hall Monday to make sure the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is not forgotten.  “I believe it is just as relevant if not more relevant today,” said Shiela Hayes, President of the NAACP’s Norwich Chapter. Hayes was joined by members of the NAACP, state and local lawmakers, members of...

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in 2012. Martin Luther King Jr. could hardly believe his eyes when he left the segregated South as a teenage college student to work on a tobacco farm in Simsbury, Connecticut. “On our way here we saw some things I had never anticipated to see,” King wrote his father in June 1944. “After…

Elected officials, religious leaders, music stars and Detroit sports heroes gathered Monday at a church to remember longtime U.S. Rep. John Conyers. Former President Bill Clinton, civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer were among the speakers at Conyers’ funeral at Greater Grace Temple in Detroit. They were joined by several current and former...

A crash involving a police vehicle has closed part of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in New Britain Friday night.

Alabama’s capital, a city once known as the cradle of the Confederacy and later the birthplace of the civil rights movement, elected its first African American mayor Tuesday. Probate Judge Steven Reed, 45, clasped the history-making victory to be elected the next mayor of Montgomery after defeating businessman David Woods by a decisive margin. Reed won about 67% of the...

Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman was stopped by police in Connecticut and officers swarmed his vehicle — some with guns drawn — in a mix-up involving his own stolen vehicle and separate report of an armed man, police said.

It started out as a joke but a petition to rename the Fifth Avenue block by Trump Tower to “President Barack H. Obama Avenue” had more than 302,000 signatures by Thursday afternoon — and a new mission calling for 325,000 signatures after the previous goal was surpassed.

For over a century, tobacco has been a major crop grown in Connecticut, but now many farms are moving away from this once desirable product.

A group of students from Spelman and Morehouse colleges who’ve been studying Michelle Obama’s memoir, “Becoming,” had a surprise visitor to discuss the work — the former first lady herself. Obama came to Spelman to talk with the students Saturday about the best-selling book ahead of her sold-out appearance Saturday night at State Farm Arena in downtown Atlanta. Obama encouraged...

A Tennessee social justice center that has hosted iconic civil rights leaders was destroyed in a fire and a “white power” symbol was found on the site, the center said and NBC News reported. The symbol, which officials did not describe but said was connected to the white power movement, was discovered after the main office was completely destroyed in...

More than a thousand people gathered at for a scholarship breakfast in Hartford. Women from the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority packed the Convention Center.

Hundreds packed into the Connecticut Convention Center on Monday for a breakfast honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence made a brief surprise visit Monday to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C.

A New Jersey-based “community restaurant” owned by Jon Bon Jovi and his wife will serve a free meal to furloughed federal workers on Monday.

A day after travelers waited nearly 90 minutes in snail-speed security lines at the world’s busiest airport, Atlanta’s mayor is concerned about the waits that could result when the city hosts the 2019 Super Bowl. The ongoing partial government shutdown is “uncharted territory” amid planning for one of the world’s biggest sporting events, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said Tuesday. “Obviously,...