Portlanders joining demonstrations or performing outdoor acts of community service on Monday can expect a sunny, but breezy, Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Sunday’s high temperature will be about 50 ...

When Martin Luther King Jr. served as the pastor of an Alabama church during the latter half of the 1950s, he would get food ...

IRONTON — Ohio University Southern hosted its annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Awards ceremony Tuesday, after the ...

Canton's Interfaith Coalition will host a Commemoration Day on March 20, featuring Martin Luther King Jr.'s cousin, Rev. Joel ...

"I think people that voted for Trump – I was not one of them, I think you were – those people wanted America first," Hostin ...

Al Letson revisits a story about civil rights activist Bayard Rustin that he produced 16 years ago for Black History Month.

TAMPA, Fla. — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrates the memory of Dr. King and his achievements as a civil rights leader. The holiday is observed annually on the third Monday of January and this ...

Civil rights leader and American icon Rev. Jesse Jackson died early Tuesday morning at the age of 84. In 1968, Jackson witnessed the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., while standing with him ...

It's the night of April third, 1968 and King's assassination is just hours away. The scene is the Lorraine Motel in Memphis ...

ATLANTA — The legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is continuing in Atlanta as the restoration of the building where he had an office during the civil rights movement is complete. When Ed Bowen ...

Civil rights leader and two-time presidential candidate Rev. Jesse Jackson has died at the age of 84. Jackson worked alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and was present at his assassination in 1968.

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The legacy of Samuel Wyche, a pioneering Philadelphia police detective who also served as a bodyguard for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is being kept alive through the memories of ...