It was the summer of 1966. I completed my first year at Bethany Theological Seminary in affluent Oak Brook, Illinois. My home for the summer was in a Black inner-city neighborhood on the West Side of ...

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One of the facts about Martin Luther King Jr. that most people are unaware of: His birth certificate reads Michael King, an ode to his father, a former pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.

“When I say poor, I don’t just mean black people.” –Martin Luther King Jr. “The true enemy is war itself.” –Martin Luther King Jr. For thirteen years he lived and worked with the knowledge that a ...

Civil rights leader Reverend Martin Luther King Credit: Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Martin Luther King Jr., the Nobel Peace Prize–winning leader of the civil rights movement who helped ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — Toledo will honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. through a day of performances, speakers and more. The city, the University of Toledo and the Human Relations ...

(A version of this story first appeared on Dec. 12, 2014.) Three years after Martin Luther King Jr. became internationally famous as the spokesman for the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, he came to ...

Organizations across Westchester and Rockland counties are honoring the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a wide range of events that celebrate his values of equality, service and ...