Related: Remembering Martin Luther King Jr. with 15 of His Most Powerful Quotes “He was a very difficult man,” Eig said of King Sr., who died in 1984. “He was very stubborn.

Jacqueline Smith has spent 30 years protesting outside the motel where Martin Luther King was fatally shot in 1968. After being forcibly removed from the premises when it closed, she has devoted ...

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 ...

Activism / This Juneteenth we need to discard the caricatures of King that we so often see and learn from what he actually did and believed. Jeanne Theoharis With protests mounting across the country ...

In January 1967, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. packed several suitcases and secluded himself on the coast of Jamaica, far from the telephone, far from the crises roiling America. It would not go ...

The following feature is excerpted from TIME Martin Luther King, Jr.: His Life and Legacy, available at retailers and at the Time Shop Revolutions tend to be measured in blood. From Lexington and ...

How has protesting in America — and Philadelphia — changed since Martin Luther King, Jr. fought for civil rights in the 1960s and how effective is it? On this episode of The Why , Philadelphia ...

Martin Luther King III leads voting rights protest outside the White House on Nov. 3, 2021. (Photo: theGrio/Jessica Floyd) Some of the protesters were under the age of 18 and were taken away by ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is approaching quickly – Monday, Jan. 15 — and this year, the federal holiday falls on the actual birthday of the celebrated civil rights leader who was assassinated ...

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.: The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. UNIDENTIFIED PEOPLE: Yeah. MARTIN: You hear that quote, and you may conjure up images of ...