Any day now, thousands of previously classified documents related to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. are set to be released — ...

On April 16, 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote "Letter from Birmingham Jail" while imprisoned in Alabama for ...

Here is that speech: The obituaries From the New York Times: “To many million of American Negroes, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther ...

Bernice King remembers when her father moved their family in 1966 to a third-floor walk-up without heat in Chicago. Martin ...

The family of Martin Luther King Jr. protested President Donald Trump's decision to release the secret files surrounding his assassination, asking to review them before they are made public.

Sixty-four years ago today, a crowd of eager students piled into Thompson Chapel for regular Sunday Services. Curious ...

Greenfield Village is set to welcome visitors for a new season, showcasing an exciting, immersive exhibit currently under ...

Credit: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (WIB) – Fifty-seven years ago, an assassin’s bullet struck the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on a Memphis balcony, and in that single, ...

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 a ...

The event was moved from its original January date because of cold weather then, but the new date coincided almost with the ...

Nearly 200 people gathered inside the National Civil Rights Museum on Friday evening to remember civil rights advocate the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on the anniversary of his tragic death.