Martin Luther King Jr.

In the book “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?” Martin Luther King Jr. called for “a revolution of values” that would help heal American society. In 2022, he would be disappointed that “we didn’t heed his message,” says his daughter Bernice King, a minister and attorney. King joined LX News to talk more about the direction the...

A new program plans to give Black women in Georgia up to $850 in guaranteed income per month. Similar experiments are also taking place across the country.

Lerone Martin has studied pretty much all there is to study, and read almost all there is to read, about the late Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin said the U.S. is still dealing with issues today that King spoke about more than 50 years ago. “He was always committed to making sure we end the plagues that he called the...

Volunteers around the region honored the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a day of service. NBC10’s Frances Wang has the details as we welcome her to Philadelphia.

Americans must commit to the unfinished work of Martin Luther King Jr., delivering jobs and justice and protecting “the sacred right to vote, a right from which all other rights flow,” President Joe Biden said Monday.

Health justice was at the forefront as the Black Doctors Consortium and CHOP gave out COVID vaccines to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day. NBC10’s Miguel-Martinez Valle reports.

The family of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is honoring him on Monday by leading a voting rights march in Washington D.C. Vote.org CEO Andrea Hailey makes the case that voting rights is this generation’s civil rights issue.

The family of Martin Luther King Jr. crossed over D.C.’s new Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge on Monday as the world honors King’s life and legacy.

Martin Luther King said whatever affects one, affects all. The Covid crisis makes this clear in new ways, as a new generation of Black community leaders rises.

For many, Martin Luther King Jr. Day serves as a chance to give back. Philadelphia’s Girard College was set to host the nation’s largest and oldest MLK day of service. NBC10’s Miguel Martinez-Valle reports.

Some relatives of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. are spending the holiday named for him in conservative-leaning Arizona to mobilize support for languishing federal voting rights legislation.

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The quest by a civil rights pioneer to have her arrest record wiped clean after nearly 70 years after she protested racial segregation has raised the possibility of similar bids to clear the names of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. in Alabama.

Rev. Jesse Jackson was discharged from a rehab hospital Wednesday after receiving successful treatment for Covid-19 and Parkinson’s disease. 

Juneteenth National Independence Day is the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983.

Johnnie R. Turner, a former Tennessee state representative, talks about her experience with implicit segregation on buses and public spaces even after courts have ruled to desegregate.

Purcell Conway, a civil rights activist from St. Augustine, Florida, talks about the watershed moments that led to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and why it’s still not the end of the fight for racial equity in the United States.

Dr. Albert Gaskins recalls his experience traveling between Washington, D.C. and Virginia as a child, and why he bucked the expectation for Black riders to sit at the back of the bus.

Dr. Albert Gaskins talk about the movement to open a Philadelphia boarding school, Gerard College, to Black students – a movement that drew figures like Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to the cause.

Dr. Edward S. Cooper, Martin Luther King Jr.’s former physician, talks about growing up under his family’s medical legacy.