Mr. Eig is the author of “King: A Life,” a forthcoming biography of Martin Luther King Jr. One spring day in 1956, Harry Belafonte picked up the phone and heard the voice of Martin Luther King ...

A teacher at a Riverside high school who was acquitted of rape in March has been reinstated, the Riverside Unified School ...

President Trump signed an executive order declassify any remaining files from Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. MLK was shot and killed on April 4, 1968, in Memphis.

As America pauses to honour Dr Martin Luther King Jr's legacy, experts say his fight against poverty and inequality is still just as relevant today as it was during the US civil rights movement ...

Martin Luther King III, Dr. King’s eldest son and a global human rights advocate, joins John Yang to discuss his father’s legacy.

Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote this letter thanking Henry Luce for TIME's decision to name the civil rights leader as the Man of the Year in 1963.

Mr. Arsenault ranks Lewis with a “small number of other transcendent historical figures — Martin Luther King Jr., Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Tubman” — an appropriate assemblage since Lewis grew ...

Christine King Farris was a founding board member of the nonprofit that Coretta Scott King started in 1968 in the wake of her husband's assassination.

Advancing Martin Luther King’s Dream Through Hope and Community On Monday, Duke celebrated a Martin Luther King Day of Service where students took part of a Unity Rally, the annual Rotary Club meal ...

Did Martin Luther King Jr. Pay the Hospital Bill for Julia Roberts' Birth? The Oscar-winning actress has a special connection to MLK and his wife, Coretta Scott King.

Mary Ellen Ford was a 21-year-old cook at Memphis’ Lorraine Motel in April 1968, when the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. checked in to the Tennessee motel for the last time.