Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and civil rights activist who had a seismic impact on race relations in the United States, beginning in the mid-1950s.

As the nation pauses to remember Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his legacy to the United States, the stock markets in the country will close for the day. The New York Stock Exchange will close ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — When President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in as president of the United States inside the Capitol’s rotunda, he will do so facing a bust of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr ...

The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., is a civil rights legend. In the mid-1950s, King led the movement to end segregation and counter prejudice in the United States through the means of peaceful ...

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Who was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr? King was a revered civil rights and social justice advocate who sought racial equality during the modern United States Civil Rights Movement.

This Juneteenth we need to discard the caricatures of King that we so often see and learn from what he actually did and ...

His enduring legacy was memorialized when Republican President Ronald Reagan signed the King Holiday bill in 1983, and again during the dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in 2011.

Inauguration Day and Martin Luther King Jr. Day occur on the same date more often than you may think. Inauguration Day occurs every four years on Jan. 20 (or Jan. 21 if the 20th falls on a Sunday ...

ATLANTA — More than 50 new United States citizens are celebrating following their naturalization ceremony at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park on Tuesday morning. Channel 2′s ...

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 ...