Detroiters like Stevie Wonder and John Conyers were instrumental in making Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a federal ...

Dr. King visited Mansfield twice during the 1960s. Both times, he addressed standing-room-only crowds at Mount Hermon Baptist ...

On the evening of April 3, 1968, the day before he was assassinated, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke to Memphis sanitation ...

In 1983, about 20 years after King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, legislation for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day cleared Congress, and President Ronald Reagan signed it.

At the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis one September day, tourists pause solemnly before a ...

"While others were advocating for freedom by 'any means necessary,' including violence, Martin Luther King Jr. used the power ...

Every person should receive dignity, worth and value, says Jeanne Morrison. She is to be honored for activism at MLK Day ...

According to NBC, the overlap is rare — this just the second time Inauguration Day falls on the same date as MLK Day since it ...

Dr. King's innovative thinking helped pave the way for Black entrepreneurial success. By challenging what's possible, King ...

Banks will be shutting down on January 20, Inauguration Day, because of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday.

When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech April 3, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee, he ...

Kristina Estle, director of the Underground Railroad Museum, wants area residents to remember and understand the cause that ...