At the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis one September day, tourists paused solemnly before a ...

Keep your eyes on the prize. That's the message Bruce Springsteen imparted Monday, Jan. 20, the national holiday for the late ...

Bernice King said anti-woke rhetoric is being used to divide and distract people from real issues of injustice.

Many people are unaware that King rehearsed his "I Have a Dream" speech at what is now the Historic Hampton House in Miami ...

In the decades following the assassination of a man who would one day have his name become synonymous with racial equality, ...

A massive 70-member choir belted out “Hallelujah” to open a Martin Luther King Jr. Day service Monday at his former ...

In 1983, about 20 years after King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, legislation for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day cleared Congress, and President Ronald Reagan signed it.

In Harlem, New York, while signing copies of his first book, “Stride Toward Freedom,” Izola Ware Curry stabbed King with a ...

Standing on his balcony at The Lorraine Motel, King was shot and killed April 4, 1968. The assassination sparked another series of riots in the Avondale neighborhood, which resulted in the deaths of ...

On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we’re taking a look back at when the civil rights leader spoke to a crowd at Johnson C.

The civil rights icon and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Dr. Martin Luther King, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968.(Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images) In ...