Martin Luther King Jr. Day became a federal holiday in 1986. However, Pennsylvania’s recognition of the late activist started almost a decade before that.

Investigators announced the arrest of a third man charged with homicide in the 2024 shooting death of a 25-year-old in an ...

Residents have a number of opportunities to escape the dangerous heat over the next few days in the Lehigh Valley while temperatures reach nearly 100. Lehigh and Northampton counties remain under an ...

Velez, who was gunned down at a crowded city park in Allentown, prosecutors announced on Monday, July 14. Wilmer Esequiel ...

Keeping them occupied, however, shouldn’t cost an arm and a leg. From summer concerts to movies in the park, here is a list ...

Yolanda Renée King is the sole grandchild of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King—and is just as passionate. She ...

Social justice advocates are creating a queer history archive that celebrates Bayard Rustin, a major organizer in the Civil ...

Every July Fourth brings fireworks, picnics, parades and happy celebrations of American freedom. But behind the festivities ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — More than 60 years after a white supremacist assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers, his ...

The Blue Zones Project-Allentown seeks to make the Lehigh Valley cities healthier places to live by making alterations to schools, businesses and neighborhoods.

Community Action Lehigh Valley provides anti-poverty programs in six counties. New and proposed federal funding cuts threaten much of what the nonprofit does.

Freedom in Christ calls on us to freely exercise “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control,” for the good of God and others.