Plus, a production that combines two works from playwright Amiri Baraka and a show about a 40-year-old getting a driver's ...

Six years after MLK Jr. was killed, his beloved mother Alberta Williams King was also assassinated, while playing a church ...

On October 25, 1960, Martin Luther King Jr. was sentenced in Decatur, Georgia for protesting segregation at a department store lunch counter.

The grand opening in Memorial Church included a panel highlighting King’s legacy as a scholar, activist and human being. The ...

Lionel Richie opened up about growing up during the civil rights movement in an interview with The Guardian on Oct. 4.

The monument, holding the tomb of King and his wife, Coretta Scott King, has been a mainstay in the Atlanta neighborhood ...

On the morning of 14 October 1964, Martin Luther King, sleeping in an Atlanta hospital room after checking in for a rest, was awakened by a phone call from his wife, Coretta Scott King, telling him ...

The event marked 30 years since South Bend men traveled to the nation’s capital to inspire unity on Wednesday night.

In “Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope,” Brandon M. Terry says the familiar narrative modes of the era have warped our collective memory ...

Harvard professor Brandon M. Terry offers a new way of thinking about what the leaders of that period achieved, what they ...

October 24, 1861, is the last run of the Pony Express from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California. The mail service to the west ended after just 18 months as the transcontinental telegraph ...