Arielle Gray's grandfather — then a teenager — joined the march to the Common led by King drawing attention to the racial ...

Mississippi honors those who fought for the Confederacy against the United States in the Civil War. Who tried to drop the state holiday?

Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the third Monday in January, became federally recognized in 1983 when President Ronald Reagan signed it into law.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a U.S. holiday and national day of service. It took a long time for the country to get there It was first proposed four days after King's 1968 assassination outside a ...

Churches, Fraternities, Sororities, and individuals receive the spotlight for working to continue Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of equality.

Mississippi Department of Transportation Southern District Transportation Commissioner Charles Busby updated several road projects underway.

Civil rights activists and clergy launch a movement in solidarity with a national boycott of Target, focusing on economic ...

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is free to visit 24 hours a day, but National Park Service rangers are only available to answer questions from 9:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. It can be reached by ...

To people who happen to be admirers of Spanish Civil War literature, Jackson as the headquarters of the Mississippi ... Luther King as “the Rev. Dr. Extremist Agitator Martin Luther King, Jr ...

When Lewis Diuguid began working at The Kansas City Star as a reporter and photographer, the newsroom was a very different ...

The federal government on Friday released the first tranche of approximately 50,000 pages of classified documents related to ...