MLK's voice continues to ring out against injustice, despite attempts to erase Black history. His legacy remains urgent and needed today.

King was in Memphis to support striking African-American sanitation workers upset over poor working conditions and low pay.

A portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. hangs on the wall of the Jasper family home. It’s the first thing you see when you ...

The annual observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day invites Americans to reflect on a transformative figure whose vision ...

Friday marks 57 years since the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., on April 4, 1968. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] The ...

Jackson City Councilman Kenneth Stokes remembered Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Friday. Stokes, along with a handful of ...

Fifty-seven years ago, an assassin’s bullet struck Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on a Memphis balcony, and in that single, devastating moment, the world lost a moral giant, and Black ...

Media outlets that praised Martin Luther King Jr.'s work in the South treated Northern segregation differently.

Nobel Peace Prize awardee Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, triggering riots across the US. His death shook ...

Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968. King was a tireless ...

John Mercer Langston be­comes the first African American elect­ed to public office when he wins the po­sition of clerk of Brownhelm Township, in Ohio. Though not well known today, Langston was one of ...