Guidry grew up in Texas and graduated from Clark Atlanta University, Yale Divinity School and has a Ph.D. from ...

In an interview published by NPR’s Book of the Day podcast on Jan. 3, writer Jonathan Eig, who authored the biography 'King: A Life,' said that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was "a protest leader ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the steps of the State Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, on March 25, 1965. ... Baptist preacher as a fighter for the working class, ...

In some ways it’s a sick irony – the juxtaposition of Trump being inaugurated on Monday, the same day we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. King was a champion for civil and human rights.

From left: Martin Luther King III, Martin Luther King Jr. and Yolanda King. Marvin Koner/Corbis/Getty My mom, the incomparable Coretta Scott King, who died in 2006, would sometimes tell me ...

President Jimmy Carter posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks to 25,000 marchers in Montgomery, Ala., at the conclusion of a march from Selma to Montgomery on March 25, 1965.

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

The annual day of remembrance for Martin Luther King Jr. is less than two weeks away, falling on Monday, Jan. 20, the same day as Inauguration Day this year.. Here’s what to know about Martin ...