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Yolanda Renée King is the sole grandchild of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King—and is just as passionate. She ...
Recently, on May 31, 2025, I attended a community celebration for the sculpture unveiling ceremony honoring Dr. Martin Luther ...
Almost four years after his “I Have a Dream” speech, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. arrived at a tent-in demonstration in DuPage County.
A village in Chicago’s south suburbs is poised to purchase Pope Leo XIV’s childhood home after its board voted unanimously on ...
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’s relatives want to keep ...
He went on to win the election and resume the presidency. He shared his 2025 Inauguration Day with Martin Luther King Jr., whose life and legacy are celebrated each January with a federal holiday.
A historic Black church in downtown Memphis that was the organizing point for Martin Luther King Jr.’s final campaign in 1968 caught fire early Monday morning and suffered significant damage.
The changing-of-the-balcony-wreath is set for 6:01 p.m. — the time, approximately, when King was shot. The event is free and open to the public.
More than half a century after his death, conspiracy theories about the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination continue to circulate online.
Martin Luther King Jr. in Birmingham, Alabama, May 9, 1963 AP Photo FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover believed that individuals like Stanley Levison, a close advisor to King, had significant ...
King stands with his aides on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., about the same spot where he was killed a day later on April 4, 1968. Associated Press Photo A black minister had ...
King was assassinated in 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee, while on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel, marking a dark moment in U.S. history following the assassination of President Kennedy, who worked ...