Despite being a revered leader of the civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was actually conflict avoidant, says biographer Jonathan Eig. In an interview published by NPR’s Book of ...

In 2025, Martin Luther King Jr. Day also happens to coincide with Inauguration Day, a rare occurrence that last happened in ...

American Baptist minister and activist Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 – 1968) poses for a family portrait with his daughter, 7-year-old Yolanda Denise King (1955 – 2007), son, 18 months Dexter ...

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.