Today's challenges — from educational inequality and economic disparity, to voter suppression and police violence — demand ...

Martin Luther King Jr. knew the political ... In that revolutionary speech, King described how he was morally compelled to speak out against the war. In the days and weeks after, he would lose ...

It was first proposed four days after King's 1968 assassination outside a Memphis motel. It took 15 years until it became a ...

Dozens of people from the greater Farmington area attended the Martin Luther King Jr. Day service ... Alpha Phi Alpha [a fraternity for African American men in higher education which King belonged ...

He talked of a new Manifest Destiny and a “Golden Age." He invoked the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., William McKinley and ...

The Rev. Martin ... War. Supporters, meanwhile, were still calling for federal holiday status. In 1983, about 20 years after King's "I Have a Dream" speech, legislation for a Martin Luther King Jr ...

LEWISBURG — Bucknell University kicked off its celebration of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday ... of Japanese American incarceration during World War II, offering a poignant reflection ...

Israel's co-optation of his message distorts his stance Civil rights leader Reverend Martin Luther King Jr, centre, marches against the war on Vietnam ... a national American holiday to honour ...

It was 1963 when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered "I Have a Dream," one of the most famous speeches in American history ... in school being about World War I and World War II, but King ...

FILE - Passengers depart the Caltrain Norcal MLK Celebration Train in San Francisco on Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday ... Abraham Lincoln as “a great American, in whose symbolic shadow ...