Federal and state offices, banks, as well as postal and trash services will be closed or suspended Monday. Here’s what else ...

as he stood on a second-floor balcony at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn. Friends and family of Martin Luther King Jr. ride aboard a float for the civil rights leader during a parade in ...

The civil rights icon was assassinated in Memphis on April 4, 1968, as he stood on the balcony of the old ... as well as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and other topics of great public interest." ...

Federal judge Jerry W. Blackwell stood in the pulpit of Duke Chapel during a Sunday commemoration service for civil rights ...

Martin Luther King Jr. delivers an address at the Tomlinson ... He might not have been assassinated on its second-floor balcony. But we don’t live in a world of what if. We live in a world ...

Every year we honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. in January. Here's everything you need to know about the holiday.

The life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will once again be celebrated and honored Monday in events around the ...

He was assassinated on a hotel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968. In 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed a bill declaring the third Monday of every January as Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day honors service ... and noted civil rights leader was assassinated as he stood on the balcony of a Memphis hotel in 1968. Fifteen years later, the bill establishing ...

President Trump has announced plans to release classified documents on high-profile assassinations, including that of ...

MLK assassination Mary Ellen Ford, highlighted in oval, was a cook at the Lorraine Motel on April 4, 1968, when the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot to death on the balcony outside his ...

Our community leaders to whom we owe a deep debt of gratitude for working hard in the face of enormous obstacles to do the ...