Martin Luther King Jr. Day is celebrated annually on the third Monday in January to mark the late activist’s birthday. In 2025, the holiday falls on January 20, the same day typically set aside ...

Martin Luther King Jr. waves to supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., during his famous 'I Have a Dream' speech on Aug. 28, 1963. AFP/Getty ...

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is free to visit 24 hours a day, but National Park Service rangers are only available to answer questions from 9:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. It can be reached by ...

Martin Luther King III holds his daughter, Yolanda Renee King, during a wreath laying ceremony at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Monument on Sunday, January 20, 2013, in Washington, D.C.

This Juneteenth we need to discard the caricatures of King that we so often see and learn from what he actually did and ...

Jan. 20 marks an unlikely pairing: President-elect Donald Trump‘s inauguration and the nation’s celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Trump’s rhetoric contrasts sharply with King’s ...

— Martin Luther King Jr., Address in Washington D.C. “If we will but make the right choice, we will be able to speed up the ...

Updates on the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. ... (1963), the March on Washington (1963) and the Selma voting rights movement in 1965. King was assassinated on March 29, 1968 in Memphis, ...

Seattle Parks and Recreation is partnering with Clean Greens Farm & Market, Solace, the Black Agriculture Leadership Council, ...

Police are investigating after two separate shootings occurred on the same block within an hour of each other on Sunday.

A federal judge is weighing a request from the Trump administration to unseal records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. — files that the civil rights leader’s relatives want to keep ...