Editor's Note: This story was orignially published on npr.org on Feb. 7, 2024. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, is so ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WMBD) – People will have a chance to see a handwritten original edition copy of one of America’s most famous ...

This video dives into the world’s most famous speeches, chosen directly by viewers from sixteen different countries. From national liberation moments to wartime declarations, each speech carries a ...

We begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass became a key leader of the abolitionist movement. On July 5, 1852, in Rochester ...

The draft of MLK's most famous speech lacked its most famous lines. The 'I Have a Dream' part was suggested by Mahalia Jackson as King neared the end of his 1963 speech at the Lincoln Memorial. As the ...

There was a time when school children memorized famous speeches. Perhaps, in some places of education, they still do. Hopefully, today’s curriculum at least supports reading and studying the words of ...

(Mass Appeal) – Join the Greater Holyoke Council For Human Understanding to celebrate the legacy of Frederick Douglass with a community reading of one of his most famous speeches. Here is Gina Nelson ...

On Dec. 7, 1941, the headline of a story in the Arkansas Gazette proclaimed: "Main Street in Holiday Attire for Christmas." Below the headline was a photo of a festively decorated downtown Little Rock ...