Before the fire, the Clayborn Temple was undergoing a $25 million restoration that was slated for completion in 2026.

King was drawn to Memphis in 1968 to support some 1,300 predominantly Black sanitation workers who went on strike to protest ...

On a rainy day in late April 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the Boston Common bandstand and addressed a crowd of ...

A historic Black church in downtown Memphis that was the organizing point for Martin Luther King Jr.'s final stand has ... The temple was also a staging point for marches to City Hall.

Sixty years later, several hundred people returned to where 20,000 people heard the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. encourage leaders to do better.

Legendary attorney Fred Gray — once deemed the “chief counsel” of the Civil Rights Movement by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr ...