Dr. King visited Mansfield twice during the 1960s. Both times, he addressed standing-room-only crowds at Mount Hermon Baptist ...

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

Martin Luther King Day is the celebration of the civil rights activist's birthday that falls in January. However, the federal ...

"While others were advocating for freedom by 'any means necessary,' including violence, Martin Luther King Jr. used the power ...

According to NBC, the overlap is rare — this just the second time Inauguration Day falls on the same date as MLK Day since it ...

When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech April 3, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee, he ...

Federal and state offices, banks, as well as postal and trash services will be closed or suspended Monday. Here’s what else ...

Kristina Estle, director of the Underground Railroad Museum, wants area residents to remember and understand the cause that ...

In Harlem, New York, while signing copies of his first book, “Stride Toward Freedom,” Izola Ware Curry stabbed King with a ...