Recent travelers agreed the National Civil Rights Museum should be at the top of anyone's list of things to see in Memphis.

Blocks away from the funky music of Beale Street, on the south edge of downtown Memphis, sits the two-story Lorraine Motel. Built in the 1920s, the motel on Mulberry Street has gone through some ...

The new "Legacy Experience" renovations at the National Civil Rights Museum address a civil rights movement going into high ...

From the balcony of the Lorraine Motel to a small-town high school that changed American law, Tennessee’s Civil Rights ...

As well as being one of the featured voices, Hall is a writer and executive producer on the movie, which is directed by renowned documentarian Sam Pollard. The film, called The Lorraine, also features ...

Editor's note: This story has been updated to correct a name spelling. Moments before he was fatally shot, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called out to jazz saxophonist Ben Branch from the balcony of the ...

When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed while standing on a balcony outside his room at the Lorraine Motel on April 4, 1968, Jesse Jackson was in the courtyard below. The young, ...

MEMPHIS — At the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis one September day, tourists paused solemnly before a group of life-size statues, some crafted in Tennessee National Guard ...