Some marchers carried signs saying “no human should be illegal” and “immigrants rights are civil rights,” referencing President Donald Trump’s rhetoric.

Hundreds gathered in Raleigh on Monday for the city’s 45th annual celebration of Martin Luther King Jr., marching through downtown before an ecumenical service in his honor. “Dr. King took America’s ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations have kicked off at King's former congregation in Atlanta with a 70-member choir's ...

The United States is paying tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's legacy the same day a new president was inaugurated.

The June 1963 march in Detroit was, at the time, the largest civil rights demonstration in U.S. history, with 125,000 ...

If you’re looking for me to sugarcoat the reality we’re facing, I can’t do that,” Rep. Jasmine Crockett tells Harper’s Bazaar ...

Sitting in his Atlanta home office with his wife and fellow civil rights activist Arndrea Waters King, Martin Luther King III ...

Detroiters like Stevie Wonder and John Conyers were instrumental in making Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a federal holiday.

· January 15, 1929: Now commemorated annually as Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (in 2023, the holiday is observed on Monday, January 16), January 15 marks the day King was born in 1929. King was born in ...

For the third time in U.S. history, Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Inauguration Day will both be held on the same day.

His name has gained wider recognition in more recent decades, but civil rights activist and organizer Bayard Rustin has long ...

In these quiet ways — and others — people across the Washington region will honor Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday while ...