The latest news and top stories on Martin Luther King Jnr, a prominent American Baptist minister. Known for his pivotal role in the American civil rights movement from the mid-1950s until his ...

Former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young settled into the role of doing the “dirty work” right away when he began working for the ...

Lionel Richie opened up about growing up during the civil rights movement in an interview with The Guardian on Oct. 4.

In “Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope,” Brandon M. Terry says the familiar narrative modes of the era have warped our collective memory ...

Looking out at the audience gathered in Gomes Chapel on Monday morning, Erica Chenoweth, an expert on nonviolent protest and this year’s Martin Luther King Jr. keynote speaker, piqued the audience’s ...

The resonance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s final speech, delivered on the eve of his assassination in Memphis, reverberates through American society with renewed relevance in 2025. As the nation ...

The late Rep. John Lewis noted in a 2015 interview that King had a great deal of trust in Douglas' ability to coordinate the needs of the movement's logistics ...

This photograph shows Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) greeting supporters in Baltimore after he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. Under King’s leadership, nonviolent protest became the defining ...

Flathead High School, in collaboration with the Crown of the Continent Choir, Flathead Folk Band, and International Baccalaureate English and music students, will honor the legacy of Rev. Martin ...

The Trump administration has released records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from the slain Nobel laureate’s family and the civil rights group that he led ...

SHERMAN, Texas (KTEN) - Since 1986, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day has been recognized as a federal holiday and on Monday folks gathered at Austin College's 21st Annual Community Celebration. Dr.

“This is not a black holiday; it is a people’s holiday,” said Coretta Scott King after President Ronald Reagan signed the King Holiday Bill into law on Nov. 2, 1983. But in the complicated history of ...