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Photographer Richard Copley recalls covering Martin Luther King Jr. and the sanitation workers' strike in Memphis 50 years ago, when he was a college student.
He went on to win the election and resume the presidency. He shared his 2025 Inauguration Day with Martin Luther King Jr., whose life and legacy are celebrated each January with a federal holiday.
He went on to win the election and resume the presidency. He shared his 2025 Inauguration Day with Martin Luther King Jr., whose life and legacy are celebrated each January with a federal holiday.
The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Parade is returning to downtown Pensacola during Juneteenth after the original January showcase was cancelled due to unsafe weather conditions when the Pensacola ...
As the country observes Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, the civil rights icon's daughter is challenging people to continue his fight to achieve what he called "a beloved community." While ...
Trump executive order prompts request to release FBI wiretap records two years early, over objections by the civil rights group King founded and his children.
A bronze bust of Martin Luther King Jr., which had previously been featured prominently in the Oval Office, has been quietly removed from the Oval Office. According to USA Today, the bust was ...
The Memphis church pivotal in Martin Luther King Jr.’s final days suffers a devastating fire “Clayborn is more than a historic building. It is sacred ground. It is the beating heart of the ...
A federal judge is considering whether sealed documents relating to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination should be released before 2027. Evening Standard/Hulton Archive, via Getty Images ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge is weighing a request from the Trump administration to unseal records of the FBI's surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. — files that the civil rights leader ...
Local News Boston rally honors 60 years since Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1965 Freedom Rally “I think my father and mother would challenge us to be a better America because we can become that.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A historic Black church in downtown Memphis that was the organizing point for Martin Luther King Jr.'s final campaign in 1968 caught fire early Monday morning and suffered ...