The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic “I Have a Dream ... U.S. Democratic Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, one of the longest-serving members of Congress known for his liberal stance ...

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 ...

On April 3, he gave a speech at the Mason Temple Church and was killed the next day ... the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr. Since then, the ...

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. waved to supporters during the March ... U.S. Democratic Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, one of the longest-serving members of Congress known for his liberal stance ...

20 (UPI) --The United States is paying tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King ... it after Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., had initially proposed MLK Day in a bill four days after King's assassination ...

MLK Day is a federal holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King ... In 1968, Michigan Rep. John Conyers introduced the first motion to make King's birthday a federal holiday four days after he ...

Monday marks Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday that honors ... African American History and Culture. Former U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., introduced legislation to create a ...

ATLANTA — The MLK Day holiday is marked annually as a day of service and remembrance of the struggle for justice, equality and the Beloved Community that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made his life ...

DEAR READERS: Wishing you all a very happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Inauguration Day ... we can do for the freedom of man.” -- John F. Kennedy, Jan. 20, 1961. “We shall reflect the ...