From grassroots organisers to Martin Luther King, leaders framed their struggle in global terms, writes Keisha N. Blain ...

Before Lerone Martin joined Stanford in 2022 as director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute, he ...

A new biography by Stanford’s Lerone Martin reveals lesser-known aspects of Martin Luther King Jr.’s youth, including a period of agnosticism and his transformative farm work in Connecticut. The book ...

At 15, Martin Luther King Jr. joined a work expedition to a Connecticut tobacco farm. The experience was life changing.

Lerone Martin's book follows the civil rights leader through childhood, escaping Jim Crow life working in Connecticut and ...

Across the United States, cities, civil rights groups, and various organizations are honoring and remembering Dr. King. Fifty-eight years have passed since Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was ...

Editor’s note: This story was shared as part of a content-sharing agreement between Mosaic.NJ.com and FrontRunnerNJ You can follow them on Facebook and Twitter (or X). Dr. Lenore A. Martin will ...

In 1965, three months after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. declared from the steps of the state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, that the aim of the civil rights movement was no more and no less than ...

President Trump removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day from the list of free-entry days to national parks this year. Removing MLK Day as a national holiday altogether would require an act of Congress, but ...

Martin Luther King Jr. fought for both racial and economic equality during his life. He argued for a guaranteed basic income in a 1967 book. These days, many tech leaders are calling for something ...

These 10 MLK quotes matter now more than ever in 2026. The King holiday marks 58 years since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. In the current political climate, the ...