The long-sealed files related to the FBI’s yearslong surveillance of civil rights icon Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were ...

The Trump administration has released more than 200,000 documents related to the 1968 assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. King was fatally shot in Memphis, Tennessee.

Martin Luther King III, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s second-oldest child, speaks in 2012 to a crowd at Pittman-Sullivan Park in San Antonio during that year’s Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

Martin Luther King (left), pictured here next to contemporary Malcolm X, is one of the most prominent civil rights activists in US history.© Henry Griffin/AP Photo/picture alliance ...

The Trump administration on Monday released hundreds of thousands of government files related to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., 57 years after his death.

“Today, after nearly 60 years of questions surrounding the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., we are releasing 230,000 MLK assassination files,” Director of National Intelligence ...

Alveda King, Martin Luther King Jr.’s niece and an outspoken conservative, said she was "grateful to President Trump" for his "transparency." ...