Five free events are happening in Marion this week including the Marion Black Joy Summerfest and a Pride picnic. The Stand By ...

A new documentary from Stevie Wonder will explore his role in establishing Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a federal holiday.

His enduring legacy was memorialized when Republican President Ronald Reagan signed the King Holiday bill in 1983, and again during the dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in 2011.

King was a Star Trek fan. One of the most fun facts about Martin Luther King. Jr. is that he was, in fact, a Trekkie! It’s ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium “Strength to Love”: 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, Jan. 18, in Barrows Auditorium in Wheaton College’s Billy Graham Hall, Room 105, 500 College Ave. in Wheaton.

Martin Luther King Jr. often spoke of creating “the beloved community,” a society in which “men can live together without fear,” as he wrote in a 1966 essay.

In an interview published by NPR’s Book of the Day podcast on Jan. 3, writer Jonathan Eig, who authored the biography 'King: A Life,' said that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was "a protest leader ...

More than half a century after his death, conspiracy theories about the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination continue to circulate online. "Martin Luther King was Killed by his DOCTOR NOT ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service: 9-10:30 a.m. Monday, Jan. 20, at Ackerman Woods, 800 St. Charles Road, Glen Ellyn. Help the Glen Ellyn Park District improve the quality of natural areas by ...