The seat is part of the Museum of the American Revolution's exhibit on the Declaration of Independence, opening Oct. 18.

King's 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' is not just a seminal document of American civil rights. It's a masterpiece of literature, experts say

President-elect Donald Trump will use two Bibles to culminate the 60th Presidential Inauguration. He is not the first to do so, nor to use the historical Bible he chose.

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum will celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy on Monday, Jan. 20, by presenting his most famous speech and hosting a blood drive on the holiday that is often called a “national day of service.” Guests can also enjoy a performance by a string quartet.

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. He chose that location in part to

Family and others carrying on Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy of equality, justice and nonviolent protest want Americans to remember that Monday's holiday is really about helping others.

If U.S. Catholics seek to embrace Martin Luther King Jr.'s desire to "redeem the soul of America," we will also have to reclaim the soul of Catholicism, which is nothing less than a broad and inclusive love for all,

We’re a day from the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday, the commemoration of the birth of the famed civil rights leader, who died tragically in April 1968.

I'd never had a white person talk to me like that,' Warren Stewart Sr. says, recalling the late Gov. Evan Mecham and the Arizona battle over MLK Day.

“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.” -- Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1865.

In these quiet ways — and others — people across the Washington region will honor Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday while thousands of others converge on the nation’s capital to celebrate President-elect Donald Trump being sworn in for a second term.