George Clooney and his father were arrested today during a protest outside the Sudanese embassy in Washington.

The daughter of the Reverend Martin Luther King has been chosen as the first woman to head the civil rights organisation that he co-founded.

FEUDING heirs of the Rev Martin Luther King have reached an agreement over control of the late civil rights leader’s estate, ending a year-long legal battle.

Americans remembered Martin Luther King’s dream of social justice on the 40th anniversary of the civil rights leader’s assassination today.

Thousands of chanting demonstrators filled the streets of the little Louisiana town of Jena in America's Deep South today in support of six black teenagers initially charged with attempted murder in the beating of a white classmate.

Hundreds gathered to mourn Yolanda “Yoki” Denise King, the eldest daughter of the American civil rights campaigner Rev Martin Luther King Jr.

A crowd of 300 linked arms and marched through downtown Atlanta and the neighbourhoods where Martin Luther King Jr grew up to mark the 40th anniversary of the murdered civil rights leader’s “I Have a Dream” speech.

Prosecutors have asked an Alabama court to confine a former Ku Klux Klansman to a state mental hospital to determine if he is competent for trial in a church bombing that killed four black girls.

Prosecutors asked an Alabama court yesterday to confine a former Ku Klux Klansman to a state mental hospital to determine if he is competent for trial in a church bombing that killed four black girls.

The famed civil rights organisation founded by Martin Luther King is threatening to fire his son as president for failing to breathe new life into the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.