Martin Luther King, Jr. at home, 1956. He looked around again, saw the immensity of the crowd, and his face hardened for a moment. “I’ll bet he sure can get them going.” ...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks to 25,000 marchers in Montgomery, Ala., at the conclusion of a march from Selma to Montgomery on March 25, 1965.

On rare occasions, Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Inauguration Day coincide. Former President Barack Obama’s inauguration for his second term fell on Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013.

In an interview published by NPR’s Book of the Day podcast on Jan. 3, writer Jonathan Eig, who authored the biography 'King: A Life,' said that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was "a protest leader ...

Martin Luther King Jr., a reverend and civil-rights activist, was assassinated at 39. However, he inspired several movements and political changes.

This Juneteenth we need to discard the caricatures of King that we so often see and learn from what he actually did and ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the steps of the State Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, on March 25, 1965. ... Baptist preacher as a fighter for the working class, ...

From left: Martin Luther King III, Martin Luther King Jr. and Yolanda King. Marvin Koner/Corbis/Getty My mom, the incomparable Coretta Scott King, who died in 2006, would sometimes tell me ...

The annual day of remembrance for Martin Luther King Jr. is less than two weeks away, falling on Monday, Jan. 20, the same day as Inauguration Day this year.. Here’s what to know about Martin ...

In some ways it’s a sick irony – the juxtaposition of Trump being inaugurated on Monday, the same day we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. King was a champion for civil and human rights.