Magic Johnson regrets never getting a chance to meet the man honored Monday night at Arizona State University — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Despite his accolades, it wasn't until nearly 20 years after his assassination in 1968 that Martin Luther King Jr. Day became federally recognized in 1986. And it was even longer until all 50 ...

The annual day of remembrance for Martin Luther King Jr. is less than two weeks away, falling on Monday, Jan. 20, the same day as Inauguration Day this year.

King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, according to the Stanford Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute. He was standing on a second-floor balcony outside his room at the ...

Days after King's assassination, legislation was drafted to have Martin Luther King Jr. Day, but it would be another 15 years before King was recognized with a day and even longer for all of the ...

This Juneteenth we need to discard the caricatures of King that we so often see and learn from what he actually did and believed. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks before crowd of 25,000 in ...