Remembering the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and his urgent call for justice, equality, and peace. His words continue to inspire and challenge us today.

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 ...

It erases the systemic, longstanding segregation and racial inequality endemic in Northern cities and marginalizes the robust, years-long movement in Chicago that Martin Luther King supported and ...

In the nearly 40 years that the United States has celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the national holiday has never ...

Martin Luther King Jr., for example, argued that with passage ... The swing vote on the court, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, had been a skeptic of racial preferences and had authored a 1995 ...

FORT PIERCE — The family of the 29-year-old woman killed by gunfire at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration in 2023 has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit, seeking at least $715,884.14 from ...

Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux was a renowned Black preacher and broadcaster. Radio Diaries' series "Making Waves" looks at ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Here's a look at some of the fun Memphis events in April! From February until May 2025, Huey's is hosting ...

(WAVY) — The legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. lives on 56 years after his untimely ... “We drove up to Washington [D ...

On March 19, 1935, the so-called Harlem Riot broke out after a crowd of onlookers mistakenly believed that a white business ...

By coincidence, this order was issued on a federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., a man who dedicated ... "It’s actually very fitting on MLK Day.” It is events such as these that ...