The preacher and civil rights activist tells us that we can all live and work together to make society a better place.

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 ...

The fact that slaves were sold in St. Augustine isn't in dispute; in 1827, the young New England writer Ralph Waldo Emerson passed through and saw a slave auction in full swing. When King came in 1964 ...

For our complete Black History Month coverage, click here. When he was born Jan. 15, 1929, Martin Luther King Jr.’s name was Michael. It’s the name originally on his birth certificate.

In the present work, Martin Luther King, Jr. - Mountain Top, Bearden simply, yet dramatically displays the Baptist minister and activist, positioned in front of a blue landscape. The mountain, sky, ...

The museum, packed floor to ceiling, with items like posters, bobble heads and cabbage ... offering free rides up the Peninsula to the Martin Luther King Jr. Day March in San Francisco – around ...