She was attacked by mounted police officers on "Bloody Sunday" in Selma. Her efforts, along with "Bloody Sunday," were significant in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Ripon College student Gary G. Yerkey was among 10 from the college eager to join the march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, Alabama.

Mason City's Dr. Miriam Brown Tyson honored at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. celebration as part of Black History Month.

Niranjana would go on to win first place, and $2,000.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a powerful speech on justice at SMU's packed McFarlin Auditorium in 1966.

Fox 45 News honors Black History Month by highlighting local role models, who walk in the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr ...

Hundreds packed the Brown Ballroom to hear Baratunde Thurston's message of unity, hope, resilience and common humanity Saturday night.

Coretta Scott King and Martin Luther King, Jr. met in Boston while both pursued their higher education degrees. Coretta Scott was a student at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston ...

the son of the legendary slain civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr., talked to PEOPLE about what it was like spending the first 10 years of his life living in the same house as the man who ...

On Thursday, January 23, President Donald Trump passed an executive order suggesting releasing classified files related to the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy ...

The family of Martin Luther King Jr. has expressed their deep emotional response to President Donald Trump’s recent executive order to declassify federal records related to the assassinations of ...

Government files on the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will be declassified for the public, due to an executive order by President Donald Trump. On Thursday (Jan. 23), President Donald Trump ...