In the nearly 40 years that the United States has celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the national holiday has never ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Friday marked the 57th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The civil rights ... for are being destroyed every day," marcher Eric Kittrell said.

On April 4, the National Civil Rights Museum honored Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 57 years after his death in 1968. Each year, ...

Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis ... he gave a speech at the Mason Temple Church and was killed the next day. James Earl Ray was convicted of King's ...

On the 57th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination ... “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” King repeatedly warned against the ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has been dead almost 60 years, but his philosophy — his lifelong commitment to "nonviolent direction action" to effect political change — remains relevant as a ...

Friday marked the 57th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The civil rights icon spent time in ... fought for and was assassinated for are being destroyed every day," ...