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

Martin Luther King III, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley spoke at the 60th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1965 Freedom Rally.

Sixty years on, Lucas will be back on the Boston Common on Saturday to celebrate the anniversary of what became known as the ...

Bernice King remembers when her father moved their family in 1966 to a third-floor walk-up without heat in Chicago. Martin Luther King Jr. came to Chicago to try to break through discrimination in ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- 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 ...

“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 ...

ATLANTA – Any day now, thousands of previously classified documents related to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. are set to be released – shedding new light on his 1968 assassination.

This week, we commemorate the anniversary of the 1968 assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., one of the most iconic figures in American history, known for his tireless fight against ...

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 ...

who once divided the White congregation of her church by inviting the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to speak and then decades later — as a minister in King’s denomination — rose to lead an ...

Nearly 200 people gathered inside the National Civil Rights Museum on Friday evening to remember civil rights advocate the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on the anniversary of his tragic death. The ...