Many people who knew and worked with the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. are vowing to ‘keep hope alive’ in honor of his legacy.

Jackson’s ties to Atlanta go back to the 1960s, when he was a young organizer moving in the orbit of Dr King. He returned ...

Let’s get a few important things out of the way: The Reverand Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. was not the docile, unintimidating, conflict avoider that mainstream media has propped him up to be in the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. turned his focus to Chicago 60 years ago this month. The Nobel Peace Prize winner came to the city at the request of Al Raby ...

Bundled in coats and scarves, hundreds of people filled Gainesville’s streets on Monday morning to honor the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. with banners and cheers. The parade brought ...

The United States celebrated the life and legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. this week. On the national holiday named for him and at numerous other times throughout each year, I reflect on what ...

In 1965, three months after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. declared from the steps of the state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, that the aim of the civil rights movement was no more and no less than ...

Melanie Levesque, New Hampshire’s first Black state senator, receives an award at the Martin Luther King Jr. Coalition's 44th annual MLK Day Community Celebration at Manchester Memorial High School.

On Monday morning, the City of Gainesville and the Martin Luther King Jr. Commission of Florida gathered at City Hall Plaza to celebrate the late reverend and unveil the redesigned memorial garden in ...

ATLANTA — To celebrate the annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday observance, MARTA announced a bus running on Route 3 would be wrapped in commemorative artwork for the King Center’s “Mission ...

In the year since Donald Trump’s second inauguration fell on King Day, the Republican president has gone scorched earth ...

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil-rights activist who helped end segregation in the US. Martin wasn't his given name: He was born Michael King Jr., after his father. At 35, he became the ...