Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has his mug shot taken at a police station house in Montgomery County, Alabama, following his arrest for directing a city-wide boycott of segregated buses, Feb. 21, 1956 ...

Since the onset of Israel’s deadly assault on Gaza and the West Bank after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack, debates have arisen among historians and media pundits about Martin Luther King Jr.’s ...

There is often the risk of getting carried away by the eloquence of the Reverend (Dr.) Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK), the African-American civil rights Baptist Minister, so much that a significant ...

This Juneteenth we need to discard the caricatures of King that we so often see and learn from what he actually did and ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., left, appearing in a Chicago news conference with Thich Nhat Hanh, a Buddhist monk from Vietnam, suggests a halt in bombing of Vietnam on May 31, 1966.

Exactly 50 years ago today, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed. Five years earlier, he spoke at Plymouth Church in Brooklyn.

In 2025, Martin Luther King Jr. Day also happens to coincide with Inauguration Day, a rare occurrence that last happened in 1997, when President Bill Clinton took the oath of office.

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is free to visit 24 hours a day, but National Park Service rangers are only available to answer questions from 9:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. It can be reached by ...

American Baptist minister and activist Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968) poses for a family portrait with his wife, daughter and two sons at their home in Atlanta, Georgia, July 1962. TPLP ...