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“MLK/FBI,” which IFC Films will release in theaters and on-demand Friday, chronicles one of the darkest chapters in the bureau’s history: the yearslong surveillance and harassment of King. Where others saw a leader of the highest order, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI saw a suspect — a potential communist and a threat to white America.

Civil rights icon and longtime Georgia congressman John Lewis is being remembered in ceremonies in the rural Alabama county where his story began

A new exhibit opening at Chicago’s DuSable Museum of African American History Friday is recreating the 1963 march on Washington D.C. using virtual reality. The experimental exhibit is coming to Chicago in hopes of placing participants right in the middle of all the action.  “The messages that happened that day resonates today just as loudly as they did then,”...

Thousands of volunteers in Philadelphia will gather to honor Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy at Girard College with charitable activities, including lunch packing and encouraging census participation. NBC10’s Pamela Osborne reports.