Monday, April 9 marks the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s funeral in his hometown of Atlanta. The anniversary will be marked with the March for Humanity through the streets of downtown ...

On April 4, it will have been 50 years since Baptist minister, civil rights leader and Southern Christian Leadership Conference President the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, ...

America met Bernice King on April 9, 1968. The youngest of Coretta and Martin Luther King Jr.’s four children, Bernice had just turned five-years-old two weeks earlier. But there she was, in a packed ...

“In the heat of Atlanta’s April, a Baptist preacher was honored and buried…in irony and agony consistent with his life and death,” begins WWD’s coverage of the April 1968 funeral of the Rev. Dr.

The original tires are still in place on the hearse that carried the remains of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Monday, February 14, 2022, at Blackham Coliseum in Lafayette, La. The Carrying on the Dream ...

The assassination of the civil rights leader 50 years ago prompted a two-day delay of the 1968 Academy Awards as several stars — including scheduled performer Sammy Davis Jr., along with Diahann ...

In 1968, David Shipps knew immediately he would attend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral in Atlanta. “I had to be there to let people know that hope does not die with an individual," he said last ...