A 1979 congressional report found that King died due to a gunshot wound. Biographers say there's no evidence King was smothered in a hospital room.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was just 29 when he was stabbed in the chest during a 1958 book signing in Harlem.

President Trump signed an executive order declassify any remaining files from Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. MLK was shot and killed on April 4, 1968, in Memphis.

As the president wages a war on DEI and threatens to roll back other civil rights efforts, the King family is continuing the Nobel laureate's mission.

In 1974, the mother of Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. Sunday the church holds a service to celebrate the loving matriarch.

Martin Luther King Jr. Was a 'Protest Leader Who Really Does Not Like Conflict,' Says Biographer Jonathan Eig, who wrote the acclaimed biography, ‘King: A Life,’ spoke about the civil rights ...

A deadly shooting occurred around 8:10 p.m. on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive SW in northwest Atlanta. The victim, a man found unresponsive with a gunshot wound, was pronounced dead at the scene.

The night before he died, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., gave what has been called his “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech. King was in Memphis, Tennessee, with the Southern Christian ...

According to the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded near Martin Luther King Jr. and 47th Avenue at around 7:30 p.m. for an adult male who sustained a non-life-threatening ...

Martin Luther King Jr.’s determination to publicize and change the fact that underserved and marginalized communities disproportionately experience environmental dangers remains unfinished today.

A historic Black church in downtown Memphis that was the organizing point for Martin Luther King Jr.’s final campaign caught fire early Monday morning.

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