This Juneteenth we need to discard the caricatures of King that we so often see and learn from what he actually did and ...

A federal judge is weighing a request from the Trump administration to unseal records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. — files that the civil rights leader’s relatives want to keep ...

FILE - Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. displays pictures of three civil rights workers, who were slain in Mississippi the summer before, from left Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and ...

Judge Considers Early Release of Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination Documents The materials are scheduled to be unsealed in 2027, but President Trump signed an executive order in January aimed ...

Gosha, Pastor and founder of Living Word Church in San Angelo, was joined by other speakers, singers, and musicians Monday, Jan. 17, 2022, during the annual noon service by the Martin Luther King ...

But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land!” With these words, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. built a crescendo to his final speech on April 3, 1968.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a U.S. holiday and national day of service. It took a long time for the country to get there. It was first proposed four days after King's 1968 assassination outside ...

Mississippi cities and counties do not have to recognize the state-sanctioned Confederate Memorial Day. Some, like Jackson and Greenville, opt to instead celebrate Juneteenth.

Mississippians who are uncomfortable with the state recognizing Confederate Memorial Day as a holiday have options.

James Earl Ray, the accused assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was arrested in London today by Scotland Yard detectives, the Justice Department announced.