Joe Calhoun became an activist during the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike, helping the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and ...

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.

Martin Luther King Day is the celebration of the civil rights activist's birthday that falls in January. However, the federal ...

"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 ...

The exhibit, starting later this year, represents the first time the two iconic objects have been displayed side-by-side.

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 ...

Federal and state offices, banks, as well as postal and trash services will be closed or suspended Monday. Here’s what else ...