Julia Roberts told Gayle King about the gesture made by Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King for her parents in 1967 A segment of Julia Roberts' September interview with Gayle ...

Perhaps one of Coretta Scott King’s most well-known achievements is her decades-long campaign to establish Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a national holiday. In 1983, after 15 years of tireless ...

Martin Luther King Jr. welcomed four children with wife Coretta Scott King before his death in 1968 Stephanie Kaloi is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.

VISIT THE EMBRACE The Boston Common memorial honoring MLK Jr. and Coretta Scott King will celebrate its first anniversary on MLK Jr. Day, and is free and available at all times to all visitors.