NPR’s ‘Book of the Day’ podcast 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 Day podcast, ...

Spectators at the Martin Luther King Jr. parade in San Diego on Sunday said they wished for a city and nation where all have ...

MLK Jr.'s son, Martin Luther King III, and his wife, Arndrea Waters King, co-authored the book "What is My Legacy?" with ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the evangelical figures who played an important role in the fight against racism.

King visited Stanford to deliver a speech entitled “The Other America,” which focused on the injustice present in an America ...

The name we recognize today as one of the most powerful voices during the Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Jr., was originally not named “Martin Luther.” His father decided to change ...

In 1988, then Annapolis alderman Carl Snowden put together The Martin Luther King, Jr. Committee of Maryland. Among its chief ...

From breakfasts, to food drives, to service projects, Massachusetts communities this weekend will celebrate Martin Luther ...

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday declassifying files on the 1960s assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and his brother Bobby Kennedy, as well as that of civil rights ...

Efforts focused on fulfilling the goal set by Congress in 1994 of making the holiday a “day on, not a day off.” ...

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 ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day will coincide with the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump this year. Martin Luther King Jr. Day to honors the pastor and civil rights activist on what would be ...