King led several nonviolent campaigns in Birmingham, known at the time as "the most segregated city in America." ...

A Life,' spoke on a Jan. 3 episode of NPR’s 'Book of the Day' podcast about Martin Luther King Jr., and noted that MLK didn’t have plans to become a civil rights leader when he joined the Montgomery ...

As we celebrate Black History Month, KOCO 5 is looking to the people and icons making and preserving Black history in our ...

Civil rights leader Rev. James Lawson Jr. dies at 95 Lawson was an apostle of nonviolent protest — and close adviser to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — who schooled activists to withstand brutal ...

Colgate University hosted Jonathan Eig to give a talk on the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. — “Beyond The Dream: Embracing a More Complicated Martin Luther King” — on Tuesday, Feb. 11. In 2024, Eig ...

Only once before since it became a federal holiday has Martin Luther King Jr. Day fallen on the same day as a presidential inauguration. That was in 1997, when Bill Clinton took the oath of office ...

Hours after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to declassify documents detailing the FBI’s investigation of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.‘s 1968 assassination, the civil rights ...

Lawrence Phillips, founder and CEO of Green Book Global Walk in the footsteps of one of history's most important figures with a visit to the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park.