Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras (BYSO) and The Museum of African American History come together to celebrate and honor Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on January 19, at 1 p.m. in Faneuil Hall. The ...

Martin Luther King Jr. was born on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 1929, in Atlanta. His father, a church pastor in the segregated south, was a significant influence on his son. In ...

Ultimately, Martin Luther King Jr. was a man of the “long arc.” He famously said, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” In 2026, he would most likely tell us that the ...

With 25 murders in Selma over the past two years and more than 60 unsolved murders over the past 10 years, community leaders ...

Dr. King’s birth name was Michael King Jr. In 1934, his father attended a meeting of the Baptist World Alliance in Germany.

Since 1964, the Justice Department deployed specialized “peacemaker” experts to de-escalate violent confrontations. Trump ...

A day honoring civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was first observed forty years ago, on January 20th 1986, after ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day lands on Monday, Jan. 19 this year, and there is no shortage of ways to observe and celebrate in ...

Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern ...

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” ...

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, is so famous that it often eclipses his other speeches.

Martin Luther King Jr. was born on Jan. 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. His father, a church pastor in the segregated South, ...