More than 50 years after he died at age 39 from an assassin’s bullet, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. endures as one of ...
The U.S. is marking Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday. But in Alabama and Mississippi, it's also Robert E. Lee ...
On the evening of April 3, 1968, the day before he was assassinated, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke to Memphis sanitation ...
WHERE...Portions of East Arkansas, North Mississippi, and West Tennessee. * WHEN...Until noon CST today. * IMPACTS...Very ...
WHERE...Portions of East Arkansas, North Mississippi, and West Tennessee. * WHEN...Until noon CST today. * IMPACTS...Very ...
Coretta Scott King and numerous other women who stood with Martin Luther King Jr. were committed activists in their own right ...
Annually, around the time of Monday’s federal holiday, there is a noticeable uptick in education and conversation about the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., one of the most prominent ...
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. He chose that location in part to honor President Abraham Lincoln as "a great ...
Martin Luther King Jr. Day is always scheduled to take place ... Lee When the federal holiday was adopted in the 1980s, Mississippi and Alabama lawmakers opted to add it to an existing holiday ...
1929-1968 In the nearly 40 years that the United States has celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the national holiday has never coincided with the inauguration of a non-incumbent president. That ...