For decades teachings around King have focused on his efforts to stamp out Jim Crow and remove ... block march to City Hall in Memphis, Tenn. Martin Luther King Jr. came to Memphis to support ...

to stamp out this kind of behavior. Watch the clip above via CNN. The post ‘Crazy Or Demented’: Martin Luther King Jr’s Son Reacts to Mark Robinson’s ‘Black Nazi’ Scandal first ...

Mayor John Whitmire announced during a June 10 City Council meeting that Houston will honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The peaceful protest culminated with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and delivering a stirring speech that would forever change America. In August as ...

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 ...

Bettmann Archive 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 ...

Only once before since it became a federal holiday has Martin Luther King Jr. Day fallen on the same day as a presidential inauguration. That was in 1997, when Bill Clinton took the oath of office ...

The only grandchild of Martin Luther King Jr., Yolanda was born to Martin Luther King III and Arndrea Waters King on May 25, 2008. Yolanda didn't get a chance to meet her grandparents, MLK Jr. and ...