Mississippi honors those who fought for the Confederacy against the United States in the Civil War. Who tried to drop the ...

a young minister asked the day I was there ... that might bring federal intervention on a large scale. When Martin Luther King visited the state recently in support of the Freedom Democratic ...

Sixty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally protesting housing discrimination and segregated schools in ...

On Saturday, despite cloudy skies and drizzling rain, over a hundred people gathered at Copley Square for the reimagining of ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the third Monday in January, became federally recognized in 1983 when President Ronald Reagan signed it into law.

Arielle Gray's grandfather — then a teenager — joined the march to the Common led by King drawing attention to the racial ...

Martin Luther King III and Imari Paris Jeffries of Embrace Boston reflected on the rally's legacy in a fireside chat ...

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 ...

A group of people gathered at the "Embrace" statue in Boston Common on Saturday to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the ...

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is free to visit 24 hours a day, but National Park Service rangers are only available to answer questions from 9:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. It can be reached by ...

SOUTH BEND — A large mural is being planned for the west facade of the new Martin Luther King Jr. Dream Center to honor the slain civil rights leader. The plans were brought before the South ...