On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we honor Dr. King's legacy and his final moments at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, where Room ...

Every year we honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. in January. Here's everything you need to know about the holiday.

Federal judge Jerry W. Blackwell stood in the pulpit of Duke Chapel during a Sunday commemoration service for civil rights ...

Our community leaders to whom we owe a deep debt of gratitude for working hard in the face of enormous obstacles to do the ...

Martin Luther King Jr., who wrote parts of his “I Have a Dream” speech in South Carolina, was scheduled to be in Columbia on ...

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

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. waved to supporters during the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963 on the ...

Who assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. King was shot by James Earl Ray from a window across the street from the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. On April 23, 1967, Ray escaped from the Missouri State ...

Mary Ellen Ford was a 21-year-old cook at Memphis’ Lorraine Motel in April 1968, when the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. checked in to the Tennessee motel for the last time. King, who was in ...

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