President Trump signed an executive order declassify any remaining files from Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. MLK was shot and killed on April 4, 1968, in Memphis.

Mr. Eig is the author of “King: A Life,” a forthcoming biography of Martin Luther King Jr. One spring day in 1956, Harry Belafonte picked up the phone and heard the voice of Martin Luther King ...

Mary Ellen Ford was a 21-year-old cook at Memphis’ Lorraine Motel in April 1968, when the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. checked in to the Tennessee motel for the last time.

President Barack Obama moved the Martin Luther King Jr. bust into the Oval Office in 2009. Trump kept it during his first ...

Bettmann Archive. On this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, January 15, 2024, when the most famous American Civil Rights leader in history would have turned 95, he would surely have celebrated the ...

Academy Award-winning actress Julia Roberts' family had a special relationship with Martin Luther King Jr. A Reddit post from January 2023 claimed that the famed civil rights activist and his wife ...

Mr. Arsenault ranks Lewis with a “small number of other transcendent historical figures — Martin Luther King Jr., Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Tubman” — an appropriate assemblage since Lewis grew ...

Martin Luther King Jr.'s sister remembers her "little brother" 02:24. ... and justice—virtues that reflect the best of our nation," Mr. Biden said. Born Willie Christine King on Sept. 11, 1927, ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium “Strength to Love”: 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, Jan. 18, in Barrows Auditorium in Wheaton College’s Billy Graham Hall, Room 105, 500 College Ave. in Wheaton.

Read Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter on Being Named ‘Man of the Year ... Dear Mr. Luce: I am deeply honored that your staff and editorial board saw fit to name me as your 37th Man of the Year.