Civil Rights activist and Baptist minister Martin Luther King, Jr., is most remembered for his use of nonviolence and civil ...

Lerone Martin's book follows the civil rights leader through childhood, escaping Jim Crow life working in Connecticut and ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- "King: A Life," the new biography of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was on virtually everyone's top 10 list of 2023 – including the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, and Time ...

Every January, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, is observed on the third Monday. King Jr., who would have turned 95 in 2024, was ...

Before Lerone Martin joined Stanford in 2022 as director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute, he ...

On this Martin Luther King holiday, somebody is going to play you a clip of the "I Have A Dream" speech. It is well worth a listen, but there is a lot more to hear, so our colleagues pulled something ...

At 15, Martin Luther King Jr. joined a work expedition to a Connecticut tobacco farm. The experience was life changing.

BECKLEY — Most people remember Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for his speeches or his civil rights marches, but supporters of the holiday say King’s greatest legacy is his cultural impact. Observed on the ...

The New-York Historical Society honor goes to Jonathan Eig, whose “King: A Life” presents the civil rights leader as a brilliant, flawed 20th-century “founding father.” By Jennifer Schuessler Jonathan ...

ATLANTA — There are so many ways to pay tribute to Atlanta-born civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King on what would have been his 97th birthday. The King Center and Morehouse College, Dr. King's ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - For the first time in history, there is now a life-size statue of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Montgomery. The Equal Justice Initiative unveiled the statue at the ...