President Barack Obama moved the Martin Luther King Jr. bust into the Oval Office in 2009. Trump kept it during his first ...

President Donald Trump has sparked quite a debate by taking the bust of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. out of the Oval Office and ...

Despite being a revered leader of the civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was actually conflict avoidant, says biographer Jonathan Eig. In an interview published by NPR’s Book of ...

This Juneteenth we need to discard the caricatures of King that we so often see and learn from what he actually did and ...

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a United States federal holiday observed on the third Monday of January each year in orde… In May 2011, historian Richard Norton Smith led a 10-day bus tour from ...

The annual day of remembrance for Martin Luther King Jr. is less than two weeks away, falling on Monday, Jan. 20, the same day as Inauguration Day this year.. Here’s what to know about Martin ...

Updates on the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. A minister and activist, Marting Luther King Jr. was the leader of the American civil rights movement, starting in 1955 until his assassination in 1968.

Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park is a must-visit for ... Dr. King's simple casket from his April 1968 funeral service is on display in a separate room from the gallery and is ...

Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King have one grandchild. Their son, Martin Luther King III, and his wife, Arndrea Waters King, share a daughter, Yolanda Renee King, born in 2008.

Mourners by Martin Luther King Jr.'s casket in 1968. AP Photo/Charles Kelly According to biographer and historian Taylor Branch, Dr. King's final conversation was with a saxophonist named Ben Branch.