Joe Calhoun became an activist during the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike, helping the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and ...

On the evening of April 3, 1968, the day before he was assassinated, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke to Memphis sanitation ...

At the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis one September day, tourists pause solemnly before a ...

However, the federal holiday is not celebrated on Martin Luther King Jr.'s actual birthday, i.e., January 15. Instead, MLK Day is observed on the third Monday of the month to align with the birthday.

Sister Mary Antona Ebo was the only Black Catholic nun who marched with civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, ...

How did Martin Luther King's message get across to America? Partly through pop culture. Music, movies, TV helped spread his ...

The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Association of Asheville and Buncombe County honored recipients of its MLK community service ...

It's an easy decision, for me. Martin Luther King Jr. Day honors service, not self-gratification.

Banks will be shutting down on January 20, Inauguration Day, because of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday.

During Martin Luther King Jr.'s years of public appearances, he visited S.C. 10 times between 1959 and 1967, favoring the Penn Center in as a special retreat.

When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech April 3, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee, he ...

Federal and state offices, banks, as well as postal and trash services will be closed or suspended Monday. Here’s what else ...