I think my father and mother would challenge us to be a better America because we can become that. It starts with something ...

King's son said he never thought racism would still be around and on the rise like it is today, as rally-goers urged activism ...

On April 16, 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote "Letter from Birmingham Jail" while imprisoned in Alabama for ...

Arielle Gray's grandfather — then a teenager — joined the march to the Common led by King drawing attention to the racial ...

BALTIMORE -- Volunteers throughout Maryland gave back to their communities to honor Dr. Martin Luther ... On MLK Jr. Day, volunteers did their community service in a way Dr. King would have ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the third Monday in January, became federally recognized in 1983 when President Ronald Reagan signed it into law.

Theodora Lacey still displays the Christmas cards that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. sent her family in her ... Some attendees who heard him talk that day recalled to NorthJersey.com in ...

(WFLA) — Martin Luther King Jr. Day is set for the third Monday in January ... Jr. Boulevard traveling east before finishing at S. Maryland Avenue. Road closures will start at noon and re ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a U.S. holiday and national day of service. It took a long time for the country to get there It was first proposed four days after King's 1968 assassination outside a ...

This week, we commemorate the anniversary of the 1968 assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., one of the most ... they are facing every day a kind of spiritual and cultural genocide.