Reginald Dwayne Betts went from being a 16-year-old facing a nine-year prison sentence to a MacArthur “genius,” an ...

Ronald L. Quincy, former executive director of the King Center in Atlanta, discusses the leader's visits and enduring ...

What was Martin Luther King Jr.'s childhood like? Discover how his early life and education shaped the Civil Rights leader we ...

It took a long political effort to make the King Holiday commemoration a federal law. ATLANTA — The MLK Day holiday is marked annually as a day of service and remembrance of the struggle for justice, ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a man of revelation who fought tirelessly and endlessly for the rights of African Americans ...

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

The Martin Luther King Jr. essay contest asked students to consider King's challenge: “What are you doing for others?” Here are grades 6-8 winners.

Texas officially recognized MLK Day in 1991. Today, it remains the only federal holiday designated as a national day of ...

Donald Trump's being inaugurated on the day we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. feels like a cruel irony. It is a cruel irony that the nation will commemorate the memory of Martin Luther King Jr. on ...

Insight into Benjamin E. Mays, Howard Thurman, and Bayard Rustin can help develop a better appreciation of Dr. Martin Luther ...

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.

Who was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr? King was a revered civil rights and social justice advocate who sought racial equality ...