As a Black teenager growing up in Boston, Wayne Lucas vividly remembers joining some 20,000 people to hear the Rev. Martin ...

Galveston City Council members declared their support for building a Juneteenth museum on the island, and vowed to explore ...

He was assassinated in 1968 while in Memphis to support the city’s sanitation workers in a strike. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the third Monday in January, became federally recognized in 1983 ...

The deep history of the Penn Center, a former school for enslaved West Africans, and its connection to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther ... four days after King's 1968 assassination outside a Memphis motel, but took 15 years to become a federal holiday. WATCH: Harris speaks at Martin Luther King Jr. Day event in ...

Recent travelers agreed the National Civil Rights Museum should be at the top of anyone's list of things to see in Memphis. Housed in the Lorraine Motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was ...

As people from around the world mourn the death of Pope Francis right here in Memphis the Pope had close connections.

Located on the northwest rim of the Tidal Basin, this 30-foot granite memorial pays homage to civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Everything from its address at 1964 Independence Ave.

Sitting south of downtown Memphis, the Stax Museum of American Soul Music is open Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and is closed on Monday. General admission costs $15 for visitors ...

Lawrence Originally constructed in 1869 (before being moved and rebuilt at its present location in 1925), The Peabody Memphis has held ... of John Philip Sousa's "King Cotton March" as the ducks ...