On a rainy day in late April 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the Boston Common bandstand and addressed a crowd of ...

A historic Black church in downtown Memphis that was the organizing point for Martin Luther King Jr.’s final campaign in 1968 ...

King was drawn to Memphis in 1968 to support some 1,300 predominantly Black sanitation workers who went on strike to protest ...

A historic Black church in downtown Memphis that was the organizing point for Martin Luther King Jr.'s final stand has ...

Sixty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally protesting housing discrimination and segregated schools in ...

Martin Luther King III and Imari Paris Jeffries of Embrace Boston reflected on the rally's legacy in a fireside chat ...

“A nation can be considered great when it defends liberty as Lincoln did, when it fosters a culture which enables people to ‘dream’ of full rights for all their brothers and sisters, as Martin Luther ...

A few months ago, another image of Mrs. King from the U.N. march was discovered on a contact sheet in The Times’s archive libraries. The portrait was taken by the Times photographer Neal Boenzi, who ...

Actor and director David Oyelowo shared his thoughts about playing Martin Luther King Jr. in the 2014 historical drama Selma.

The National Civil Rights Museum held a moving tribute to honor the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. on the anniversary of his assassination. Speakers at the event, including State ...

Jack Martin Cook Jr climbed the stairway to Heaven, surrounded by his children, on April 3, 2025, in Templeton, Calif. Jack was born on May 24, 1957, in Long Beach, CA, to Jack and Dorothy Cook and ...

After starring as Martin Luther King Jr. in Nat Geo’s Genius: MLK/X series and “Scar” in box office hit Mufasa: The Lion King, Kelvin Harrison Jr. took time out of his booked and busy schedule to drop ...