TURN on the news and you can be forgiven for thinking the world is going to hell in a handcart. But one singer is refusing to ...

Black leaders say Trump's presidency has been anything but carrying out MLK's dream of an "oasis of freedom and justice." ...

Dr. King’s revolutionary vision for economic justice, overcoming political opposition and cementing social justice is ...

On August 28, 1963, National Park Service ranger Gordon Gundrum adjusted the microphones at the Lincoln Memorial to ensure ...

That summer day in 1963, at the March on Washington, was a moment Bragg says is too transformative to ever forget. “You had ...

Martin Luther King Jr.'s iconic 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech is well known, but there are several other key speeches that ...

As communities across the country on Monday host parades, panels and service projects for the 40th federal observation of ...

Ttremendous progress has been made on so many levels" to combat the evil of racism, but it continues because "the problem is ...

The iconic "I Have a Dream" speech — delivered during the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on Aug. 28, 1963 ...

NPR revisits a series of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation interviews with a soft-spoken Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from 1961.

This Martin Luther King Jr. holiday is especially auspicious, falling as it does during the sesquicentennial—250 years since we declared our independence. Ever since its founding, our nation has made ...

In his most influential speech, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. may have prophesied the moment we are currently living in.