Southern multi-talented actor Michael Ward starred as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in “For the Love of Mahalia.” Brenda Barnes starred as Mahalia Jackson. Jackson and Dr. King met at the 1956 ...

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech next to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 28, 1963. The Washington Post This is an updated version of ...

The late Mahalia Jackson sang it at King’s funeral in Atlanta in 1968. But among the other hymns performed that day at Ebenezer Baptist Church was one that King first heard in Denver in 1956.

Rev. Jesse Jackson stands on the motel balcony on Feb. 14, 2018, the location where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn. in 1968.

Organized in collaboration with the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., Kappa Phi Lambda Chapter, the celebration honors the life and legacy of prominent civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.