Over a half-century ago, Martin Luther King Jr. traveled to Memphis to support and bring attention to a strike by more than 1,300 city sanitation workers, but the journey to Tennessee would cost ...

Pentagon agency pauses celebrations for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Black History Month and more Federal agencies have struggled to interpret Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order ending DEI programs ...

In Focus: Martin Luther King Jr. Day. ... 1965, a procession of 2,500 marchers, both Black and white, set out once again to cross the Pettus Bridge and confronted barricades and state troopers.

It is often forgotten that Martin Luther King Jr. was a deeply patriotic American. In King’s day, as in ours, there were influential Black Americans — men like Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael ...

On the 57th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, we remember not only his iconic speeches but the depth and radicalism of his work. Often sanitized in mainstream memory ...

In some ways it’s a sick irony – the juxtaposition of Trump being inaugurated on Monday, the same day we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. King was a champion for civil and human rights.

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) — The Grand Junction Black Citizens and Friends organization hosted its annual Martin Luther King Jr. march on Monday, January 20.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks to 25,000 marchers in Montgomery, Ala., at the conclusion of a march from Selma to Montgomery on March 25, 1965.