Reginald Dwayne Betts went from being a 16-year-old facing a nine-year prison sentence to a MacArthur “genius,” an ...

It was a Sunday of celebration in the Palmetto State, as thousands of people came together to recognize President Joe Biden ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day honors service, not self-gratification. For those who may simply see the day as government-granted ...

It took a long political effort to make the King Holiday commemoration a federal law. ATLANTA — The MLK Day holiday is marked annually as a day of service and remembrance of the struggle for justice, ...

Detroiters like Stevie Wonder and John Conyers were instrumental in making Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a federal ...

Texas officially recognized MLK Day in 1991. Today, it remains the only federal holiday designated as a national day of ...

In 1983, about 20 years after King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, legislation for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day cleared Congress, and President Ronald Reagan signed it.

Who was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr? King was a revered civil rights and social justice advocate who sought racial equality ...

Where King's vision was rooted in the American dream, in liberty and justice for all, Trump’s is fueled by pettiness, ...

In the latest "The Nonviolent Jesus" podcast, John Dear and Bernard Lafayette, founder of the Center for Nonviolence and ...

Go to a MLK celebration these days and you will hear Black politicians using this holiday as a platform to run for Office.