This Fourth of July, director Osato Dixon’s film ‘Wait Until Tomorrow’ audits America's ledger of racial debt. A analysis on ...

Former President Joe Biden joined Minnesotans by the thousands who paid their respects to Melissa and Mark Hortman at the ...

A missing person case has become a homicide investigation in Madison County. Officers with the Anderson Police Department ...

In 1963, the great American civil rights activist and political philosopher, Martin Luther King Jr., wrote the famous 'Letter from Birmingham Jail,' an open letter he penned from his Alabama prison ...

In the solace of a Birmingham jail in April 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. penned what many consider “one of the greatest documents ever written by an American.” King came across an article ...

Will kids have school? Who killed Martin Luther King Jr.? James Earl Ray, a 40-year-old who had been in and out of prison, confessed to killing King and was sentenced to 99 years in jail for it.

In 1983, about 20 years after King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, legislation for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day on the third Monday of January cleared Congress and President Ronald Reagan signed it.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” even more than his “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, raised a vision for social ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — This year, Martin Luther King Jr. Day falls right on the civil rights leader’s 95th birthday. Since 1983, the holiday is always celebrated on the third Monday of January to ...

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth home, operated by the National Park Service, in January 2018. Atlanta police have arrested a woman accused of trying to burn it down. (David Goldman/AP) ...