Martin Luther King Jr.

Harry Belafonte died at the age of 96 on April 25 after a lifetime of popularizing, funding, and supporting the struggles of the international working class

Labor unions, civil society and religious groups joined the Poor People’s Campaign on June 18 to demand justice and redressal for the 140 million people in the US facing poverty and growing insecurity

King led various civil rights movements across the country calling for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States.