In September 1958, while promoting his first book at a Harlem, New York, bookstore Martin Luther King Jr was stabbed in the chest by a woman with a letter opener.
When President Donald Trump announced an executive order Thursday to release the remaining government files in three of the ...
An executive order by Donald Trump demands the nation's security organizations create plans to release confidential records ...
Memphis was embroiled in a massive sanitation workers’ strike. After years of racial discrimination from management and a ...
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the most influential figures in the US civil-rights movement. Much of what people know about the activist is limited to his iconic role in the 1963 March ...
Two U.S. states honor Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on the federal holiday for Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Do you know which ones? This year, the state and federal holiday also ...
Monday, Jan. 20, offers a choice. On the one hand, it's the federal holiday to celebrate the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. On the other hand, it's the day the nation inaugurates its ...
Martin Luther King Jr. Day is on Monday and is an opportunity for Americans to honor Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement. King is remembered as an important leader and ...
Dallas’ 43rd Martin Luther King Jr. Day Parade will take place on Jan. 18 at 10 a.m. Every year on the third Monday in January, the country observes and reflects on the Rev. Martin Luther King ...
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once confessed to Harry Belafonte that he feared Black Americans were "integrating into a burning house," or a nation losing its moral vision, according to the late ...