Clara Ester, an activist who as a 20-year-old college student rushed to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s side when he was shot, has died. She was 78 and died on July 9. Ester Grew up in Memphis ...

A United Methodist civil rights activist who witnessed the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 has ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A civil rights activist, Clara Jean Ester, who witnessed the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., died ...

A huge trove of documents relating to the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King Jr has been released by the US government.

Decades after the 1968 assassination of civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the U.S. federal government has released over 230,000 pages of previously undisclosed documents related to the ...

ATLANTA — Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated 53 years ago today, as he stood on a hotel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. This year, the date falls on Easter Sunday. At the time of his ...

The Trump administration has released records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from ...