MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Memphis officials on Thursday approved naming a city street after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., nearly 44 years after the civil-rights leader was killed in the city.

President Jimmy Carter posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.

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 ...

Recently, on May 31, 2025, I attended a community celebration for the sculpture unveiling ceremony honoring Dr. Martin Luther ...

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The next day, the civil rights leader was shot and killed on a balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn.</p><p>At the roots Dr. King’s civil rights convictions was an even more profound ...

The Arkansas Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission held a Nonviolence Youth Summit in West Memphis on Saturday.

Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, left, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., center, and Mayor Erastus Corning 2nd, right, meet at the Capitol June 17, 1961, in Albany, N.Y ...

Housed in the Lorraine Motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, the museum features multimedia presentations on the civil rights movement.

Investigators found a woman dead inside of a motel room Saturday afternoon, according to the Dyersburg Police Department (DPD).

Housed in the Lorraine Motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, the museum features multimedia presentations on the civil rights movement.