The resonance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final speech, delivered on the eve of his assassination in Memphis, reverberates through ...

Martin Luther King Jr. gave over 2,500 public speeches during his lifetime ... steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC that day – others included civil rights leaders such as Roy ...

Bernice A. King urged people to get her "Daddy's Dream right." Here's why experts think this part of the civil rights ...

From his written works to influential speeches, here are excerpts of ... As we pay tribute to his life and legacy on Martin Luther King Jr. Day — observed on the third Monday of January in ...

Learley and Curtis McAllister were 12 and 9 years old, respectively, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave a speech outside of Girard College in August ...

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.

In a rare happening, the King holiday falls on the same day as the presidential inauguration. Activists vow to continue the ...

Martin Luther King III discusses the legacy of his iconic father and his emotional struggle to forge a path of his own in an ...

The road to Martin Luther King Jr. Day becoming a federal holiday in the ... about 20 years after King’s iconic “I Have a Dream” speech. The first nationwide observance took place in 1986 ...

Martin Luther King's son recently joined Kristen Welker on NBC News before Martin Luther King Day, which also happened to be the day of the 2025 U.S. presidential inauguration. In the interview, he ...

After the COVID-19 pandemic and Maui wildfires upended a lot of people’s lives including his, Bryant Neal was ready to return ...