Walker worked closely with King and was the chief strategist for the 1963 Birmingham campaign, which turned out to be one the most influential moments for the civil rights struggle.

A historic Black church in downtown Memphis that was the organizing point for Martin Luther King Jr.’s final campaign caught fire early Monday morning.

After two Memphis sanitation workers, Echol Cole and Robert Walker, were crushed by a malfunctioning truck, many protested the city. King joined in support of labor rights.

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Sen. Raphael Warnock holds the same pulpit Martin Luther King Jr. once preached from. He told Morning Edition that "your life's project should be longer and larger than your lifespan." ...

When news broke that Donald Trump had been the target of an assassination attempt at a campaign rally last summer, Martin Luther King Jr.'s son was among the voices that decried the violence ...

Statues of Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin, Coretta Scott King, Frederick Douglas, Jackie Robinson, Martin Luther King Jr., Muhammad Ali and Kobe Bryant will go up at ...

Special events are taking place all throughout the country, reflecting on the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement.

Martin Luther King Jr. Was a 'Protest Leader Who Really Does Not Like Conflict,' Says Biographer Jonathan Eig, who wrote the acclaimed biography, ‘King: A Life,’ spoke about the civil rights ...

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 and suffered significant damage.

Sen. Raphael Warnock holds the same pulpit Martin Luther King Jr. once preached from. He told Morning Edition that "your life's project should be longer and larger than your lifespan." ...