Nobel Peace Prize awardee Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, triggering riots across the US. His death shook ...

Dr. King believed that true justice lifts up everyone, not just a select few. Alveda King noted that this was rooted in Acts 17:26, that her uncle aspired for “the day that there'll be no black power, ...

On April 4, 1968, King was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel, which is now the site of the National Civil Rights Museum.

Bernice King remembers when her father moved their family in 1966 to a third-floor walk-up without heat in Chicago. Martin ...

Explore Dr. King's most radical, powerful quotes on justice, nonviolence, and truth-telling on the anniversary of his death.

Yet King understood that racism, segregation, and police brutality were a national condition, not a regional issue. Many of ...

Martin Luther King Jr., for example ... disproportionately benefit Black people, who suffered the economic legacy of racial discrimination, and that poor white people should also be included ...

On the 57th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination ... Letter from Birmingham Jail, 1963 Written in response to white clergy urging him to be patient, this quote defines ...

years-long movement in Chicago that Martin Luther King supported and then helped expand with the SCLC in 1965—movements that were ignored, dismissed, or demonized by most white Chicagoans ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published in 2018 for the 50th anniversary of the Martin Luther King Jr.