This month, as they have for almost 40 years, millions of Americans will celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He was indisputably one of the most iconic ...

Iconic songs by Sam Cooke, Kim Weston, Public Enemy, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, Lauryn Hill, Kendrick Lamar and more depict the fight for civil rights.

An executive order signed by President Donald Trump is ordering the release of classified documents surrounding the ...

Buried under layers of secrecy and red tape, the full findings related to the homicides of President John F. Kennedy, his ...

Dr. King's dream for bipartisanship and collaboration is as urgent as ever in the new Trump era, writes John Hope Bryant ...

Troops have been previously deployed in the U.S. by presidents, including George H.W. Bush and John F. Kennedy.

Martin Luther King ... While Dr. King’s actual birthday is January 15, the federal holiday is celebrated on a different date due to the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, which former US President Lyndon B ...

which was signed into law by former President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968. Although the day honors Martin Luther King Jr.‘s birthday, it doesn’t always fall on the exact date of his birth ...

This is the third time a president has been sworn in on the federal holiday honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Presidents Bill ... One after John Kennedy’s assassination in 1963, Lyndon B.

WASHINGTON — When President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in as president of the United States inside the Capitol’s rotunda, he will do so facing a bust of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on the ...

Celebrating these opposed historical figures on the same day is wildly ironic. So, I wonder if Dr. King’s soul slept easy ...

A few weeks before his death in 1968, Dr. Martin ... Dr. King’s steadfast commitment to economic justice prompted his pivotal relationship with President Lyndon B. Johnson and the subsequent ...