The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. He chose that location in part to honor President Abraham Lincoln as “a ...

Summer weekends stretch lazily ahead. This three-day Washington D.C. itinerary is your excuse to make the most of every one of them.

Civil rights leader from Denver Rev. Dr. James D. Peters has died 00:23. A Denver pastor who helped Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. organize the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and was a ...

The Multi-Generational Community Building speaker series will host two prominent Civil Rights activists at the Martin Luther King Center in Rock Island on Friday, May 16. The first speaker, Frank ...

It was through Freedom House that he learned Martin Luther King, Jr. was coming to ... the organization behind the King memorial in the Boston Common. "We, as people of color, as Black folks ...

Martin Wasn’t Always His Name Photo: Getty Images Express Newspaper. Dr. King was born Michael King Jr. on Jan. 15, 1929. Just like his son, MLK Sr.— who was born Michael King— was a well ...

Owens was named the 43rd winner of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Committee’s annual scholarship in a ceremony Monday night. The scholarship is awarded to a Boston College junior who has shown ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. knew. King ... students from Florida Memorial College were arrested during lunch counter sit-ins, and Black people had begun an economic boycott. They conducted an ...

Martin Luther King Jr., Michelle Obama and Trump’s exhausting return For some Black women, the high road led to the nation’s memorial to the civil rights leader. January 20, 2025 ...

The second of two defendants charged with taking parts of the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial in Denver’s City Park pleaded guilty and was sentenced Friday to jail and three years’ probation.

Martin Luther King III discusses the legacy of his iconic father and his emotional struggle to forge a path of his own in an excerpt from his new book 'What Is My Legacy?: Realizing a New Dream of ...

Dozens of people from the greater Farmington area attended the Martin Luther King Jr. Day service. FARMINGTON — Bishop James Ruggieri, the 13th Bishop of the Diocese of Portland, guest speaker ...