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

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

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

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

Legendary attorney Fred Gray — once deemed the “chief counsel” of the Civil Rights Movement by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — was honored with a statue outside the Alabama State Bar Association on ...

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 ...

Documents related to the 1968 assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., as well as Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, will be released "within the next few ...

Benjamin Mays ’20 and the Rev. Martin Luther King promised each other: He who outlived the other would deliver his friend’s last eulogy. On April 9, 1968, Mays made good on the promise. Benjamin Mays ...

Our separate struggles are really a struggle for freedom, dignity and humanity." The quote is part of a telegram sent by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to civil rights activist Cesar Chavez in late ...

Far-right French politician Marine Le Pen, who was convicted last week of embezzling public funds and banned from running for office, cited Martin Luther King Jr in her bid to regain power.

“The line we follow will never be that of brutality, but the peaceful one of … Martin Luther King for the civil rights of American citizens oppressed at that time. We intend to invite all ...

Reuters French far-right leader Marine Le Pen said yesterday she would peacefully fight her five-year ban from running for office and draw inspiration from American civil rights leader Martin ...