The memorial would replace an earlier monument of King at the corner of Reading Road and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.

South Carolina is one of only four states to observe the day as a state holiday, celebrating the lives of soldiers who fought to preserve slavery.

Those selected would receive up to $200,000 to create one of the 250 sculptures, which will be paid for in part with canceled ...

Pope Francis’s work here on Earth is finished. He lived the Gospel of Matthew 5-7. He lived like a member of a Pax Christi ...

Pope Francis addressed Congress in 2015 and reminded us that day of our common responsibility to the least of these, focusing ...

After just cutting more than 1,000 grants, the National Endowment for the Humanities is recruiting artists to create 250 ...

American citizens are turning out in huge numbers to protest the assault on bedrock rights enshrined in the Constitution, the ...

The real threat to democracy is any effort to destroy the credibility of the courts, especially the Supreme Court, which is ...

Pope Francis visited the United States for the first time, where he received a grand welcome in the nation’s capital before ...

On a sunny, September day in 2015, Pope Francis became the first pope to ever address a joint session of Congress. It was his only visit to the United States and one that changed the people who met ...