Blogging the Beltway: Unapologetically political, the ceremony didn't shy away from King's more radical legacy.

D.C.'s Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial is one of many around the world honoring the legend.

Obama says that infrastructure jobs will lift up the unemployed, but do they leave blacks behind?

In her Washington Post/Bloomberg column, Michelle Singletary rounds up commentary about Occupy Wall Street from around the Web -- and many observers, it seems, are unclear about how the protesters define success.

This week on the Confab: Join Associate Editor Lauren Williams as she chats with Assistant Editor Akoto Ofori-Atta and contributor Julie Walter about the scene at the massive Wall Street protest and whether Reed Between the Lines is "the new Cosby Show."

The progeny of enslaved Africans have preserved many traditions from the mother continent.

In this exclusive red-carpet video, famous black girls tell us why they rock.