Located on the northwest rim of the Tidal Basin, this 30-foot granite memorial pays homage to civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Everything from its address at 1964 Independence Ave.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights Under Law has filed a brief here April on behalf of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a U.S. holiday and national ... civil rights leader with a speech at an MLK breakfast hosted in Washington by the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network.

Organizers, including Embrace Boston, Everyone250 and the city of Boston, said the rally "honors a pivotal moment in history, reflecting on the progress made and acknowledging the ongoing challenges ...

On April 16, 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote "Letter from Birmingham Jail" while imprisoned in Alabama for ...

One speaker, Frank Smith, Jr., is the founding director of the African American Civil War Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

When you think of a successful protest movement, most Americans probably think of the American Civil Rights movement, and the March on Washington in 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr. standing […] ...

The memorial would replace an earlier monument of King at the corner of Reading Road and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.

WASHINGTON (7News ... though some flowers started to bloom last week near the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial. People of all ages were out and about at around noon, many coming from outside ...

Documents related to the 1968 assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy will be released "within the next few days," Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said ...

Leah Weber on Monday had a short but touching tribute to her husband, Dexter Scott King, son of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.