But this year, America faces a profound and painful contradiction: As we mark the MLK holiday, a white supremacist will retake the highest office in the land, poised to inflict more hurt and harm on the vibrant yet vulnerable communities I was elected to represent.

In a rare happening, the King holiday falls on the same day as the presidential inauguration. Activists vow to continue the fight for civil rights.

Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to declassify files related to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr., a reverend and civil-rights activist, was assassinated at 39. However, he inspired several movements and political changes.

People attend a wreath-laying ceremony at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial marking MLK Day in Washington ... NAACP President Derrick Johnson speaks to reporters outside the White House in Washington, May 16, 2024, after meeting with President Joe ...

The dual celebrations of a second Trump inauguration and the civil rights leader’s birth raise profound questions about Black leadership and progress toward the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream.

But note: The House ... and of Martin Luther King Jr. Trump’s policies and promises to dismantle racial equity programs and deport immigrants, for example, fly in the face of what King stood for. Trump has become a poster child for white nationalists ...

Hours after vowing to realise the dreams of Black American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr, President Donald Trump pardoned leaders of White supremacist groups Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, including Enrique Tarrio,

Though long out of publication, pieces of New England history live in its pages. The Globe mapped the listings.

It’s been less than two weeks and President Donald Trump is turning the White House, and by proxy the country, into his own fiefdom. Every infuriating headline about an important shuttered federal division or series of petty comments about how Black folks couldn’t possibly be qualified to do the job they were hired for begs the question: Have we no Black leaders who can push back against Trump?

In response to Donald Trump's order banning DEI initiatives, the DIA has paused special event programs and related events, including for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.