Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., born in Atlanta, Georgia, was a civil rights activist and pastor of Dexter Avenue King Memorial ...

Community cleanup in Shepherd's Park honors MLK Jr.'s legacy of unity and environmental consciousness. Volunteers gather to ...

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It's Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and the legacy of the civil rights leader is being celebrated in Massachusetts. Here is a ...

Many people are unaware that King rehearsed his "I Have a Dream" speech at what is now the Historic Hampton House in Miami ...

Exploring the effectiveness of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolent activism in today's context. Critics and supporters weigh in on the pros and cons of his approach.

As a nation and global citizens, we stand at the crossroads of leadership. King's vision of the Beloved Community beckons us ...

Bernice King, the daughter of late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., says the simultaneous occurrence of MLK Day ...

I confess that I don’t always pay attention to federal holidays and the people or historical events they usually honor. I don’t stop much and look much at ...

The June 1963 march in Detroit was, at the time, the largest civil rights demonstration in U.S. history, with 125,000 ...

In honor of Martin Luther King Day (MLK), the New York Flyers running club took a historic jog through Harlem. They visited ...

President Joe Biden on Sunday posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other civil ...