COLORADO SPRINGS — As the first Christian church for people of color in Colorado Springs, Payne Chapel African Methodist ... and then became free.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. also recognized ...

The life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will once again be celebrated and honored Monday in events around the ...

The government shuts down the third Monday in January to honor Martin Luther King Jr., also known as MLK Day. This year that ... has raised hackles among African-American and civil rights leaders ...

DECATUR — The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would have turned 95 on ... whose work was displayed alongside adult African-American artists. The Rev. Joshua Smith, pastor of Grace Baptist ...

Google and other major corporations celebrate and honor MLK Day. But never forget that the King Center and Coretta Scott King, more than anyone else, fought to establish the first national holiday in ...

This year, Martin Luther King Jr. Day falls on Monday ... According to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Conyers and the Congressional Black Caucus ...

Laura Kelly was to sign a proclamation Thursday during the annual Kansas African American Affairs Commission celebration of MLK Day. The event was to begin with an outdoor march at 11:30 a.m. from ...

The park is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day ... African Americans. King was frequently the keynote speaker at the conclusion of weeklong citizenship classes at Dorchester. In 1963, Southern ...

On the eve of the inauguration of President Donald Trump and Martin Luther King Jr. Day, outgoing President Joe Biden heralded ... Biden, who would go on to visit the International African American ...

“This year, we will not have the MLK parade and banquet on MLK Day as we have had in the ... Convention of Texas 2005-06 (The first African American to lead the 5,700 churches of the BGCT ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Celebrations happened all across the Lowcountry Monday as community members paused to honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The International African ...