The materials are scheduled to be unsealed in 2027, but President Trump signed an executive order in January aimed at moving up the date.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s family offered their response to President Trump’s decision to release the secret FBI files on the civil rights icon’s assassination nearly 60 years ago — a ...

President Trump signed an executive order to declassify any remaining documents related to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., by James Earl Ray. The announcement came Thursday ...

The Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday has been observed now for 39 years — the same length as King’s life. At the time of the first celebration in 1986, M. Carl Holman, president of the ...

Just weeks before John F. Kennedy was elected president in 1960, the Democratic candidate’s campaign worked behind the scenes to free Martin Luther King Jr. from a Georgia prison after the civil ...

Before you settle into your federally mandated day of action (or day of chillin,’ if that’s your groove), allow me to bestow upon you an inconvenient truth: The Martin Luther King Jr. national ...

That day, Martin Luther King, Jr. took the stage and delivered one of the greatest speeches of his life: his "I Have a Dream" speech: "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live ...

Oklahomans will gather to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy at the 46th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Parade in Tulsa! Organizers met Wednesday to discuss the event ...

Sixty years after Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech, racial justice advocates say that dream has not been achieved. As Black Americans continue to face economic ...

A Life” is the first comprehensive biography in decades of Martin Luther King Jr., drawing on reams of interviews and newly uncovered archival materials to paint a fuller picture of the civil ...

The fourth edition of National Geographic’s “Genius” series is essentially a two-for-one proposition, following parallel stories about the lives of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.