The 96-foot-tall obelisk dedicated to the 25th president, assassinated in Buffalo in 1901, was extensively defaced sometime between Friday night and Saturday morning.

"We've entered into this especially scary time in the country where it feels the sort of norms and rhetoric and rules that would tamp down on violence have been lifted," says Matt Dallek, a political ...

The US cannot claim innocence – political violence shaped its past and defines its present.

Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy might beg to differ. Teddy Roosevelt, Gerald Ford and Ronald ...

The CIA has declassified 54 documents about Robert F. Kennedy's assassination, revealing his collaboration with the agency and assessments that Sirhan Sirhan likely acted alone.

Judge Considers Early Release of Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination Documents The materials are scheduled to be unsealed in 2027, but President Trump signed an executive order in January aimed ...

WASHINGTON — A federal judge is weighing a request from the Trump administration to unseal records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. — files that the civil rights leader ...

But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land!” With these words, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. built a crescendo to his final speech on April 3, 1968.

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks Oct. 10, 1961, in Albany, N.Y. At the urging of Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, King would return to the Capital Region on Oct. 9, 1961, ...

Block parties like this one hosted by Restored Church at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park (formerly Coal Street Park) ...