Martin Luther King Jr. Day is just as much a Detroit holiday as it is a federal one. Created after overwhelming approval in Congress and being signed into a law by President Ronald Reagan in 1983 ...

Lawrence Phillips, founder and CEO of Green Book Global Walk in the footsteps of one of history's most important figures with a visit to the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park.

Faith leaders, civil rights advocates, and politicians gathered at the Boston Common on Saturday afternoon to honor the 60th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s march from Roxbury to the ...

a young minister asked the day I was there ... that might bring federal intervention on a large scale. When Martin Luther King visited the state recently in support of the Freedom Democratic ...

Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, a fellow Detroiter and respected intellectual, opens the work with a foreword that roots Congressman Conyers’ legacy within the larger American conscience. Dyson doesn’t ...

John Conyers was a towering figure in American ... then it won’t get written until someone decides to write it,’” Conyers III continued. Conyers III said that seeing how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., ...

(WNDU) - We are looking ahead to a special event that the Martin Luther King Jr. Senior Men’s Club is holding on Friday morning at Darden Elementary School. It’s the sixth annual Career Day.

TAMPA, Fla. — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrates the memory of Dr. King and his achievements as a civil rights leader. The holiday is observed annually on the third Monday of January and ...

THAT REPORT IS AHEAD AT 5:00 AND IN NEW ORLEANS, THE SEARCH FOR A GROUP OF ESCAPED INMATES NOW STRETCHING INTO DAY FOUR ... and southbound lanes of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive between Patton ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A historic Black church in downtown Memphis that was the organizing point for Martin Luther King Jr.’s final campaign in 1968 caught fire early Monday morning and ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a U.S. holiday and national day of service. It took a long time for the country to get there It was first proposed four days after King's 1968 assassination outside a ...

GARY, Ind. (WISH) — On April 22, 1959, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. visited Gary, Indiana, to accept the key to the city. Sixty-five years later, his daughter, Dr ...