Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech at Girard College in Philadelphia in 1965, and the McAllister family are featured in a photo of that day ...

Though he didn’t win the Democratic nomination for president in either year, Jesse Jackson’s moving speeches at the conventions called on the party to care more about the marginalized.

The Masonic lodge that served as the home base for Dr. King’s activism will soon be open to visitors. It had long been considered endangered.

In February 1960, Clarence B. Jones received a phone call from a friend who informed him that a Georgia preacher, Martin Luther King, Jr., had been indicted for tax evasion. The friend, Hubert Delany, ...

If you have ever wondered what Rev. Martin Luther King would tell us today, his final speech, “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” delivered on April 3, 1968, the night before ...

The Netflix documentary, "Baddest Speechwriter of All," is just a 29 minutes and focused on Dr. Clarence B. Jones in his role ...

Katori Hall’s controversial play about Martin Luther King Jr.’s final night gets a superb production by Oakland Theater ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What's open and closed on MLK Day? Everything to know about the federal holiday, and how you can honor the civil rights leader.

Let’s visit one of Martin Luther King Jr.’s speeches. No, not that one. I’m talking about the address he delivered on April 14, 1967, titled “The Other America.” It lays out King’s political and ...