The Coretta Scott King Classic returns for its second year on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, January 19, 2026, at the Prudential ...

Inaugural Coretta Scott King Classic to Debut on Martin Luther King Jr. Day Featuring Powerhouse Women’s College Basketball Lineup College Hoops 09/24/2024 ...

On Jan. 30, 2006, a little more than two years after Coretta Whipple met her eponym, Coretta Scott King died of ovarian cancer. Just 24 days later, on Feb. 23, 2006, Whipple went to the doctor for ...

Coretta Scott King, the widow of slain civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has died, five months after suffering a stroke and heart attack. She was 78.

After Coretta Scott King received a degree in voice and violin at the New England Conservatory, the young couple moved to Montgomery in September 1954 when Martin Luther King Jr. was named pastor ...

Coretta Scott King has long been known as the powerful force behind one of the nation’s greatest civil rights icons, her husband Martin Luther King Jr. But she has also cemented herself as a ...

Coretta Scott King, the dignified and determined widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who assumed her murdered husband’s burden as chief symbol of the civil rights movement and fiercely ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., third from right and his wife, Coretta Scott King, lead off the final lap to the state Capitol at Montgomery, Ala., in this March 25, 1965, file photo.

Bernice King, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, shared a pointed message on X, formerly Twitter, about her late mom that seemed to be directed at embattled actor Jonathan ...

Coretta Scott King, the widow of slain civil right leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., died Tuesday in Atlanta at 78 years old.

In 1945, Coretta Scott King moved to Yellow Springs, Ohio — the same small town that John Lithgow and his family moved to around the same time.

Jan. 31, 2006 — -- Coretta Scott King, widow of slain civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr., has died. She was 78. Scott King was admitted to Atlanta's Piedmont Hospital on Aug. 16 ...