Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Coretta Scott King wasn't just MLK Jr.'s wife. She was a force of nature who shaped history on her own terms. Born April 27, 1927, ...

During a conference in 1969, two librarians, Glyndon Flynt Greer and Mabel McKissick, happened to meet at the booth of publisher John Carroll. The trio observed that no African-American author or ...

Coretta Scott was studying voice at the New England Conservatory of Music and planning on a singing career when a friend introduced her to Martin Luther King, a young Baptist minister studying at ...

For Black women of my mother’s generation, Coretta Scott King was like Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. Following the assassination of her husband, during days of very public mourning, Mrs. King was a ...

ATLANTA — Coretta Scott King, who worked to keep her husband's dream alive with a chin-held-high grace and serenity that made her a powerful symbol of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s creed of ...

Coretta Scott King died in 2006 at the age of 78 from complications with ovarian cancer, one of the deadliest forms of cancer for women. Coretta Scott King was more than the wife and widow of Martin ...

On ‘The View,’ the trailblazing actress reflects on a childhood encounter with racial violence and the lasting impact it’s had on her life.

Her peace activism helped transform private doubt into public protest and make it possible for millions of people to be brave together. On June 8, 1965, Coretta Scott King stepped up to speak at the ...

Coretta Scott King, the widow of Martin Luther King Jr., who after her husband's murder went on to become one of America's best-known civil rights leaders in her own right and an international symbol ...