President Jimmy Carter posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.

In 1983, President Ronald Reagan’s signature created Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service as a federal holiday. The only national day of service, Martin Luther King Jr. Day was first celebrated ...

Martin Luther King III and Arndrea Waters King talked about the 2024 presidential election and work that the pair is doing to continue a famed family's civil rights legacy, in an with USA TODAY in ...

In 2025, Martin Luther King Jr. Day also happens to coincide with Inauguration Day, a rare occurrence that last happened in 1997, when President Bill Clinton took the oath of office.

A new feature documentary from Time Studios and Stevie Wonder’s Eyes ‘n’ Sound will highlight the music icon’s pivotal role ...

March 1965: American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King (1929 – 1968) and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a black voting rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in ...

Like her father and brother Martin Luther King III before her, she served as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, starting in 2009, but stepped down in 2011. In 2012, she was ...

When President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in as president, he will do so facing a bust of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on the federal holiday.

We begin the spring semester with a sense of new beginnings and new responsibilities ahead of us. It is a perfect time to commemorate the meaning of January 20 – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day – and ...

King was a Star Trek fan. One of the most fun facts about Martin Luther King. Jr. is that he was, in fact, a Trekkie! It’s true! He once told Nichelle Nichols, who played Lieutenant Uhura on the ...

FILE - Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. displays pictures of three civil rights workers, who were slain in Mississippi the summer before, from left Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and ...