It’s safe to say those experiences shaped everything he stood for later in life. So, what was Martin Luther King Jr.’s ...

As the president wages a war on DEI and threatens to roll back other civil rights efforts, the King family is continuing the ...

The one-hour documentary also did a great job showing how in Dr. King’s 39 years of life, he helped open the doors for Black people to have positions in office. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: A ...

To commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday, C-SPAN Classroom has aggregated a number of video resources to help your students learn more about him, the key events in his life, and his ...

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a young, rising star in the burgeoning ... She has feared for her life and for the past year has been carrying a gun to protect herself against possible ...

She never met Martin Luther King Jr. Yolanda’s father was only 10 when MLK Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968. Though she never met her grandfather, the young activist has always felt a ...

Jonathan Eig, author of the biography ‘King ... Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Martin Luther King Jr. didn’t originally set out to become a civil rights activist, according to his ...

BYU students light each other's candles at the Walk of Life event. Students walked in remembrance of Martin Luther King Jr. on Jan. 22. (Ella Habermeyer) Students and families lit up the night at ...

As we pay tribute to his life and legacy on Martin Luther King Jr. Day — observed on the third Monday of January in recognition of his birthday on Jan. 15, 1929 — we revisit some of his most ...

The only grandchild of Martin Luther King Jr., Yolanda was ... Being raised by MLK Jr.’s second child, Yolanda was introduced to activism at a young age. In her PARENTS essay, she explained ...