In the decades following the assassination of a man who would one day have his name become synonymous with racial equality, ...

On the evening of April 3, 1968, the day before he was assassinated, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke to Memphis sanitation ...

In 1983, about 20 years after King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, legislation for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day cleared Congress, and President Ronald Reagan signed it.

Detroiters like Stevie Wonder and John Conyers were instrumental in making Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a federal holiday.

Every person should receive dignity, worth and value, says Jeanne Morrison. She is to be honored for activism at MLK Day ...

Today, as the United States pauses to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the words of the civil rights icon echo across ...

Where King's vision was rooted in the American dream, in liberty and justice for all, Trump’s is fueled by pettiness, ...

The church is hosting the 38th edition of its Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration today at the Sheraton Framingham ...

"While others were advocating for freedom by 'any means necessary,' including violence, Martin Luther King Jr. used the power of words and acts of nonviolent resistance, such as protests, grassroots ...

How did Martin Luther King's message get across to America? Partly through pop culture. Music, movies, TV helped spread his message in the '60s ...

King visited Stanford to deliver a speech entitled “The Other America,” which focused on the injustice present in an America ...

The dual celebrations of a second Trump inauguration and the civil rights leader’s birth raise profound questions about Black ...