Lerone Martin’s new book offers fascinating insight into the civil rights icon’s younger years ...
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 ...
To many of us, Martin Luther King Jr. was a mega-force for the Civil Rights movement — a prolific speaker whose talent for oration and passion for equal rights for all resonates to this day As we ...
At 15, Martin Luther King Jr. joined a work expedition to a Connecticut tobacco farm. The experience was life changing.
Growing up as the only grandchild of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, Yolanda Renee King became aware of the significance of her last name at a very early age. But she says she ...
He jumped in a “Whites Only” pool to draw national attention to the injustice and played a role in passing the Civil Rights Act. Meet the quiet force still teaching lessons at 87. Whenever he speaks ...
FILE--Coretta Scott King and her daughter Bernice, 5, are shown April 9, 1968, attending the funeral of her husband, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in Atlanta, in this Pulitzer-prize winning file ...
Monday marks Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Below is a transcript of his celebrated "I Have a Dream" speech, delivered on Aug. 28, 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. NPR's Talk of the Nation ...
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