Every year we honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. in January. Here's everything you need to know about the holiday.

Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was born in this modest Queen Anne Victorian in Atlanta. As people around the globe will soon gather to watch Donald Trump be sworn in as president for his ...

Martin Luther King Jr. was an activist and political philosopher who became one of the most prominent leaders of the civil rights movement from the mid-1950s until his assassination in 1968.

From 1961 until 1966, King published in The Nation an annual report on the progress of the civil-rights movement during the previous year. In this installment, “Hammer of Civil Rights,” from ...

Michael King Jr. is born in Atlanta to Michael King Sr ... to correct a birth-certificate mistake or to honor the theologian Martin Luther. His childhood is comfortable; he excels in school ...

Related: In Honor of Black History Month, 30 Black History Facts You May Not Be Aware Of Born Nov. 17, 1955, Yolanda Denise King was Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King's first child.

Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was a prominent American Baptist minister, activist, and leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his ...

King was born Jan. 15, 1929. The campaign for a federal holiday ... King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, according to the Stanford Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute. He was ...

Leah Weber on Monday had a short but touching tribute to her husband, Dexter Scott King, son of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. He chose that location in part to honor President Abraham Lincoln as “a ...