The life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will once again be celebrated and honored on Monday at events around the nation. The Civil Rights icon, whose work to end segregation and racism ...

1968 at just 39 years old Bettmann Archive/Getty To many of us, Martin Luther King Jr. was a mega-force for the Civil Rights movement — a prolific speaker whose talent for oration and passion ...

The peaceful protest culminated with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and delivering a stirring speech that would forever change America. In August as ...

Monday marks an unusual coincidence with Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday, falling on the same day as Donald Trump's second inauguration, which may prompt questions about whether ...

Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Martin Luther King Jr. didn’t originally set out to become a civil rights activist, according to his biographer. On a Jan. 3 episode of NPR’s Book of the ...

Only once before since it became a federal holiday has Martin Luther King Jr. Day fallen on the same day as a presidential inauguration. That was in 1997, when Bill Clinton took the oath of office ...

Fifty-seven years after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, the nation remembers him as a hero who fought relentlessly against racial segregation policies and discrimination. Today ...

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. He chose that location in part to honor President Abraham Lincoln as "a great ...

Bernice King, the daughter of late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., says the simultaneous occurrence of MLK Day and Inauguration Day this year is an opportunity to reflect on her father ...

1929-1968 In the nearly 40 years that the United States has celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the national holiday has never coincided with the inauguration of a non-incumbent president. That ...

Martin Luther King Jr. is, with little doubt, one of the more notable figures in the annals of Black history, and his sacrifice for the greater good of all maintains its resonance in modern times.

Terms like “environmental racism” or “environmental justice” were not yet part of the national lexicon when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the Lorraine Hotel in ...