TOPSHOT - US civil rights leader Martin Luther King (C) waves to supporters 28 August 1963 on the ... [+] Mall in Washington DC (Washington Monument in background) during the "March on Washington ...

Or was it 1974? By Laurie Gwen Shapiro One morning in the mid-1970s, a solemn announcement came over the intercom at Friends Seminary: “Noted person John Lennon is now in the meetinghouse.

The files on Martin Luther King Jr. have been of particular interest, especially due to the FBI’s surveillance of King during the Civil Rights Movement. Many details about the FBI’s activities ...

Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Martin Luther King Jr. didn’t originally set out to become a civil rights activist, according to his biographer. On a Jan. 3 episode of NPR’s Book of the ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave over 2,500 public speeches during his lifetime – many of them were improvised, delivered without a manuscript and with maybe just a few notes. Dr. King’s most ...

On Friday, January 17, Anderson Mayor Terence Roberts and the city council held the 18th annual Rev. Martin Luther King ... Roberts said. John Miller, former AnMed Health chief executive, was ...

Today, the country pauses to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day with parades, speeches and acts of service. At 8 a.m., the MLK Breakfast will take place at the Julia T. & Charles W. Cherry Sr.

The U.S. is marking Martin Luther King Day, the federal holiday set aside to honor the life of the civil rights icon. But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is also Robert E. Lee Day in honor of ...

In 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was behind bars in Alabama ... and your last name becomes “John,” and your wife and mother are never given the respected title “Mrs.”; when you ...

We may earn an affiliate commission from links. As many of us enjoy the day off for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the occasion couldn’t be better for cuing up a documentary about the civil-rights ...

On Monday we’re celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day and inaugurating Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States. That may seem like an odd pairing, especially to those of us who ...

As the only federal holiday designated as a National Day of Service, it reminds us that honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr ... who brought with him Father John Dear who’s been arrested ...