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

In April 1965, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a march from Carter Playground on the edge of Roxbury to Boston Common. It was ...

Bernice King warns decades of work to reduce inequities in housing is at risk, as the Trump administration cuts funding for ...

A few months ago, another image of Mrs. King from the U.N. march was discovered on a contact sheet in The Times’s archive ...

ATLANTA — Any day now, thousands of previously classified documents related to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. are set to be released — shedding new light on his 1968 assassination.

Tulsi Gabbard announced the release of previously classified records related to the assassination of former President John F ...

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.

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 ...