“The script depicts Dr. King’s final days as he struggled to organize a protest march on behalf of striking black municipal sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was slain.

The Lorraine Motel, where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, is part of the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee. Photo Credit: Jamie Bartosch.

The Arkansas Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission held a Nonviolence Youth Summit in West Memphis on Saturday. The keynote speaker for the event was actress and producer Vivica A. Fox with the MLK ...

The Tennessee Sports Writers Association all-state teams have been released from the 2025 TSSAA track and field season.

This Juneteenth we need to discard the caricatures of King that we so often see and learn from what he actually did and believed. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks before crowd of 25,000 in ...

An artist who has opened an art gallery on S. Main Street in Downtown Memphis is creating a painting from which he said he will produce prints to generate money and donate a portion of the funds to ...

WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. – The Arkansas Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission held a Nonviolence Youth Summit in West Memphis on Saturday.

A portion of West Levi Road was renamed in honor of former State Representative and civil rights activist Johnnie R. Turner ...

After the shocking passing of Fred Smith, 80, many prominent figures have taken to social media to express their gratitude to ...

During the "No Kings" protests, people of all races, ethnicities, genders and political leanings took to the streets to ...

Recently, on May 31, 2025, I attended a community celebration for the sculpture unveiling ceremony honoring Dr. Martin Luther ...

Memphis, Tenn. (WSMV) - A portion of West Levi Road in Shelby County has been officially renamed the “Rep. Johnnie Turner Highway” in a public ceremony Monday afternoon. The street remaining is part ...