The Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday has been observed ... King and the ferocious content of his character. The Washington Post accepts opinion articles on any topic. We welcome ...

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

President Donald Trump is slated to declassify files and documents relating to the assassinations of famous Americans “in the ...

Trump’s return to office on MLK Day feels like a rebuke of everything King stood for and fought for: his personal decency and dignity as well as his ethical, moral and spiritual nobility. Trump’s ...

A judge ordered an immediate temporary block to one of Donald Trump's executive orders which sought to deny birthright citizenship to children of undocumented migrants. Four states - Washington, ...

Rustin and Randolph worked again in 1948 on a successful campaign to end segregation in the U.S. military under President Harry Truman. A pacifist, Rustin protested World War II by resisting the draft ...

The president may not have approved of Mariann Edgar Budde's homily at the National Cathedral. But the bishop answered to a higher moral calling.

Reverend Al Sharpton held an event honoring Martin Luther King Jr. during the inauguration, voicing caution about Trump's ...