Cincinnati will soon build a long-planned $1.4 million memorial to Martin Luther King Jr. in Avondale ... glass pillars surrounding a bronze statue of King. Each pillar represented a different ...

Read More: 10 Surprising Facts About Martin Luther King Jr. While the New York Times did occasionally cover New York’s myriad civil rights protests, the paper typically did so without ...

Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4 in Memphis, Tennessee. With the hindsight of history, Americans think of Dr. King and the civil rights activists in Selma as heroes. They were. It took heroic ...

Lawrence Phillips, founder and CEO of Green Book Global Walk in the footsteps of one of history's most important figures with a visit to the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park.

Leah Weber on Monday had a short but touching tribute to her husband, Dexter Scott King, son of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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 ...

Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968. King was a tireless advocate for equality and is best known for his message of peaceful ...

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 ...

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 ...