In a statement Thursday, King's family members said they would like to have the chance to review the files before it is released to the public.

But many leaders, including King’s own family, see the juxtaposition as a poignant contrast and a chance to refocus the work of advancing civil rights in a new political era. “I’m glad it ...

Dad would say that we must learn nonviolence — or we may face nonexistence,” Martin Luther King III tells Capital B.

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Martin Luther King III and his wife, Arndrea Waters King, are focusing on the concept of legacy, emphasizing the importance of daily actions. Speaking with Scripps ...

The King of Blues, B.B. King, and civil rights activist Medgar Wiley Evers were given a centennial celebration for all of ...

Civil Rights Leaders and King Family Mark MLK Day as a Special Call ... He expressed frustration with then-President Lyndon B. Johnson for prolonging the Vietnam War rather than making a greater ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — When President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in as president of the United States inside the Capitol’s rotunda, he will do so facing a bust of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — When President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in as president of the United States inside the Capitol’s rotunda, he will do so facing a bust of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr ...