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

Few cities pack the history of Washington, DC. The US capital is the home to the country’s most important monuments and ...

This is the latest on a 2020 promise from Trump to display 250 statues of John Adams, Clara Barton, Orville and Wilbur Wright, Martin Luther King Jr., and more.

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

As a teenager growing up in Boston, Wayne Lucas vividly remembers joining about 20,000 people to hear the Rev. Martin Luther ...

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

In 2005, the city officially began observing the date as Emancipation Day. In 1912 ... In 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote "Letter from Birmingham Jail" while imprisoned in Alabama ...

Inauguration Day and Martin Luther King Jr. Day both fall on Jan. 20 this year. Since 1965, federal employees in the Washington, D.C., area are entitled to a holiday on the day a president is ...

There will be several government closings in D.C. for Emancipation Day on Wednesday. WTOP has a roundup of what’s open and what’s closed. The following departments, services and facilities ...

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 ...

“They need hot diesel to get them to the trauma center, and we need trauma surgeons with cold steel to open them to find out where they are bleeding,” D.C ... off Martin Luther King Jr ...