Attorney Brian Steel is the Black rapper's white savior. Forget the white Jesus your grandmother had on her wall next to ...

There was our guiding light: The 14th Amendment, passed 100 years earlier. It extended citizenship to all persons born on ...

At age 5, "I would arrange my stuffed animals in a half circle and 'teach' them, using my grandma’s old lesson planning books ...

A documentary covering Stevie Wonder’s work to make Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday a holiday is now in production.

Officials in Dolton, Ill., called the purchase a rare opportunity. But some residents questioned whether the village, ...

California Rep. Lateefah Simon made sure her voice was heard loud and clear at a congressional hearing that appeared to have ...

President Barack Obama moved the Martin Luther King Jr. bust into the Oval Office in 2009. Trump kept it during his first ...

Just like his son, MLK Sr.— who was born Michael King— was a well-know pastor in Atlanta, Ga. In 1934, he traveled to Germany and learned about the 16th-century Protestant reformer, Martin Luther.

King was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on Jan. 15, 1929. He was the eldest son and the second of four children in his family. In 1944, he attended Morehouse College and earned a sociology degree.

King was born to Alberta Williams and Martin Luther King Sr. in Atlanta, in a modest two-story Queen Anne Victorian home that had been purchased by his maternal grandfather for just $3,500 20 ...