There’s an adage that goes: “The best part of the meal is the company.” And those words were never more true than in June 1958 when the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. came to town.

Historians say the Trump-ordered release of more information on the killings of President John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy ...

The most damaging memos describe King witnessing a rape in a hotel room ... What will the next Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations look like? Will other details emerge? Will more women come ...

An executive order signed by President Donald Trump is ordering the release of classified documents surrounding the ...

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." ...

In 1970, the pastors of Boston’s St. Cyprian’s Episcopal Church  and  Union United Methodist Church came together to create the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Breakfast. This year, the annual ...

WATERLOO — A Black entrepreneur who fought to establish her first business told the audience at Sunday’s Martin Luther King Jr. Banquet ... she wouldn’t have been able to get the property.

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

King in those last days of his life was speaking to how the environment and the conditions in which people live and work affect their lives and well-being.

As we pay tribute to his life and legacy on Martin Luther King Jr. Day — observed on the third Monday of January in recognition of his birthday on Jan. 15, 1929 — we revisit some of his most ...

On the one hand, it's the federal holiday to celebrate the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther ... of a Memphis hotel in 1968. Fifteen years later, the bill establishing the King holiday was ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Inauguration Day will be on Jan. 20. This is the third time a president has been inaugurated on ... goodwill and conscience to do more than commemorate and celebrate ...