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Editor’s note: This story was originally published in 2018 for the 50th anniversary of the Martin Luther King Jr. assassination. Mary Ellen Ford was a 21-year-old cook at Memphis’ Lorraine Motel in ...

Dr. Russ Wigginton is president of the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. In the annals of civil rights history, April 4, 1968, marks a solemn day of reckoning.

Fifty-six years ago this evening, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stepped out onto the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., when he was fatally struck by an assassin’s bullet. Dr. King was in ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy is celebrated each year in January to honor and remember the Civil Rights leader. His work has inspired millions, even decades after his death. While the Civil ...

A historic Black church in downtown Memphis that was the organizing point for Martin Luther King Jr.’s final campaign in 1968 caught fire early Monday morning and suffered significant damage. “The ...