Religion News Service is marking the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. with stories and ... In this book, written about 30 years after the assassination ...

A newly discovered note from CT’s first editor, Carl Henry, shows how King’s Birmingham Jail missive shifted a white pastor’s ...

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. turned a wisp of a smile to his companion ... in which he is by turn vilified and glorified. One letter says: “This isn’t a threat but a promise—your head ...

Martin Luther ... King under surveillance, worried that he could sway public opinion against the bureau and fretting that ...

In 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote "Letter from Birmingham Jail" while imprisoned in Alabama for protesting segregation. It was published May 19, 1963. In 1972, Apollo 16 blasted off ...

Media outlets that praised Martin Luther King Jr.'s work in the South treated Northern segregation differently.

Documents related to the 1968 assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F ... Martin Luther King III and Bernice King, submitted written declarations opposing the release.

Martin Luther King Jr. D’Souza seems to have left King’s “Letter From a Birmingham Jail” alone, but it’s still relatively early. Team Trump prefers executive-branch power grabs to ...

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 ...