Here’s a look at the life of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Personal Birth date: January 15, 1929 Death date: April 4, 1968 Birth place: Atlanta, Georgia Birth name: Michael King Jr.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a prominent Black civil rights activist and Baptist minister from Atlanta.

In this month’s edition of “Remember When,” we’re looking at a story published in the Jan. 20, 1995, edition of the ...

Two years later, he was riveted again by a live news bulletin from Salinas, California, where César Chávez — another icon of nonviolent social change — had been taken to the Monterey County Jail for ...