I think my father and mother would challenge us to be a better America because we can become that. It starts with something ...

Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis ... he gave a speech at the Mason Temple Church and was killed the next day. James Earl Ray was convicted of King's ...

Arielle Gray's grandfather — then a teenager — joined the march to the Common led by King drawing attention to the racial ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the third Monday in January, became federally recognized in 1983 when President Ronald Reagan signed it into law.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a U.S. holiday and national day of service. It took a long time for the country to get there It was first proposed four days after King's 1968 assassination outside a ...

(AP) — A historic Black church in downtown Memphis that was the organizing point for Martin Luther King Jr.’s final campaign ... to nourishing food every day. The Museum of Pop Culture ...

On a rainy day in late April 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the Boston Common bandstand and addressed a crowd of 20,000 people who had marched with him from Roxbury. Sixty years later — on a ...