Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Chicago in 1966. (Charles Knoblock / AP Photo) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional offers for ...

Martin Luther King III gives a speech at the No Kings Day protest in Philadelphia Saturday afternoon.

WASHINGTON — A federal judge is weighing a request from the Trump administration to unseal records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. — files that the civil rights leader ...

Judge Considers Early Release of Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination Documents The materials are scheduled to be unsealed in 2027, but President Trump signed an executive order in January aimed ...

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 ...

TAMPA BAY, Fla. — Every year on January 16, the nation celebrates the life, legacy and dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Although the holiday is observed every third Monday of January, Dr ...

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks Oct. 10, 1961, in Albany, N.Y. At the urging of Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, King would return to the Capital Region on Oct. 9, 1961, ...

Jan. 15, 1929 to April 4, 1968 “Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me ...

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

The move comes as Donald Trump hosted pundit Charlie Kirk, who’s called the Civil Rights Act a “huge mistake” that has ...

California Rep. Lateefah Simon made sure her voice was heard loud and clear at a congressional hearing that appeared to have ...