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On Saturday, during the March for Our Lives protest, Martin Luther King Jr.’s granddaughter Yolanda Renee King delivered a powerful speech.

The Rev. Billy Graham, who died on Feb. 21, supported the Civil Rights Movement and developed a friendship with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

Oprah’s Master Class presents a tribute to MLK through the personal memories of Georgia’s Democratic Rep. John Lewis.

The latest trove of files released on the Kennedy assassination includes an FBI analysis of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It show bias and false conclusions about the civil rights leader.

The 77-year-old talks to his 16-year-old self about the travails he will experience in his "mission to help redeem the soul of America."

Renovated in 2014, the museum hopes to immerse visitors in the nation's history of civil rights.

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A day after celebrating MLK Day, we also honor the legacy of his father Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.

When America thinks about some of its greatest newspapers, publications like the New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal come to mind. But, The Chicago Defender should also be on that list. It was certainly one of the most influential papers of the 20th century.

Nina Simone's legacy will be introduced to new audiences when the film, Nina, starring Zoe Saldana, is released in theaters next month. The biopic tells the story of Simone's relationship with her nurse-turned-manager Clifton Henderson and will highlight the later years of Simone's tumultuous life.

President Barack Obama has long made it known that he is a great admirer of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. During his first term in office, he added a sculpture of King's to the Oval Office. The bust made history in 2000 when it became the first image of an African American in any public space in the White House. So it is only fitting that during his final Black History Month as President of the United States, Obama welcomed four members of King's family to view the bust in the Oval Office for the first time.

Ahead of the Martin Luther King holiday, military officials this week yanked an offensive flyer that featured an image of the slain civil rights leader on an advertisement for a "fun shoot" at a Georgia Air Force base, reports the AJC.

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Naomi King, the sister-in-law of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was viciously attacked outside of her Atlanta retirement home on Friday,  WSB-TV Atlanta reports. King, the wife of MLK’s younger brother Rev. A.D. King and a civil rights activist in her right, was attempting to enter Big Bethel Village, a retirement facility in southwest […]