Suzette Hackney talked with Martin Luther King III about the convergence of Inauguration Day with the day of service that ...

In 1983, about 20 years after King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, legislation for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day cleared Congress, and President Ronald Reagan signed it.

At Syracuse University in 1965, Dr. King said "change is not self-operative; you cannot depend upon American institutions to function without prodding and pressuring." ...

Martin Luther King gave over 2,500 public speeches during his lifetime – many of them were delivered without a manuscript and ...

Celebrating these opposed historical figures on the same day is wildly ironic. So, I wonder if Dr. King’s soul slept easy ...

It's an easy decision, for me. Martin Luther King Jr. Day honors service, not self-gratification.

Martin Luther King's son recently joined Kristen Welker on NBC News before Martin Luther King Day, which also happened to be ...

As we marked the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr ... to turn his dream into a new reality. It’s worth the effort. Each of the young figure skaters killed in the D.C. plane crash had a story waiting ...

The couple’s new podcast and book challenge the idea of legacy as an endpoint—instead, it’s a daily practice of action and ...

Yet his words had a profound impact and influenced ... to push through and overcome any obstacle that I face. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream was more than a personal hope; it was a call to action ...

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963 on the ... the establishment of the holiday had a prolonged, difficult path to acceptance.

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963 on the ... the establishment of the holiday had a prolonged, difficult path to acceptance.