MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Hear from the voices of the women and men who marched to Washington for racial equality in 1963.

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Amber Payne, a journalist and the film’s co-director, spoke with News4 moments before the film’s premiere in D.C. 

Community members in Oakland spent the day Monday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy all over the city and for a local activist group, the day of remembrance came with a call to action.

America has honored Martin Luther King Jr. with a federal holiday for nearly four decades yet still hasn’t fully embraced and acted on the lessons from the slain civil rights leader, his youngest daughter said Monday. The Rev. Bernice King, who leads The King Center in Atlanta, said leaders, especially politicians, too often cheapen her father’s legacy into a “comfortable...

Grace Cathedral in San Francisco on Monday honored Martin Luther King Jr. on MLK Day by lighting up the church with his image and replaying a sermon he delivered there in 1965.

President Joe Biden has made a historical pilgrimage to what he calls “America’s freedom church” to mark Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday.

No admission will be required to enter Yosemite, Joshua Tree, or other fee-charging parks on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

The actor’s parents — Betty Lou Bredemus and Walter Grady Roberts — became good friends with the civil rights leaders in the 1960s.

In the book “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?” Martin Luther King Jr. called for “a revolution of values” that would help heal American society. In 2022, he would be disappointed that “we didn’t heed his message,” says his daughter Bernice King, a minister and attorney. King joined LX News to talk more about the direction the...

A new program plans to give Black women in Georgia up to $850 in guaranteed income per month. Similar experiments are also taking place across the country.

Lerone Martin has studied pretty much all there is to study, and read almost all there is to read, about the late Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin said the U.S. is still dealing with issues today that King spoke about more than 50 years ago. “He was always committed to making sure we end the plagues that he called the...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would have been 93 years old Monday and every year, we ask how much has changed and how much more needs to be done in terms of racial equality. NBC Bay Area’s Raj Mathai spoke to Dr. Clayborne Carson for some insight.

For people across the Bay Area, Martin Luther King Jr. Day has become a day of service and a way for them to give back to their communities. Marianne Favro reports.

For people across the Bay Area, Martin Luther King Jr. Day has become a day of service and a way for them to give back to their communities.

Americans must commit to the unfinished work of Martin Luther King Jr., delivering jobs and justice and protecting “the sacred right to vote, a right from which all other rights flow,” President Joe Biden said Monday.

The family of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is honoring him on Monday by leading a voting rights march in Washington D.C. Vote.org CEO Andrea Hailey makes the case that voting rights is this generation’s civil rights issue.

The family of Martin Luther King Jr. crossed over D.C.’s new Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge on Monday as the world honors King’s life and legacy.

Martin Luther King said whatever affects one, affects all. The Covid crisis makes this clear in new ways, as a new generation of Black community leaders rises.

Ahead of MLK Day, Audrey Asistio sat down virtually with Stanford Professor and director of the university’s Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Center, Dr. Lerone Martin. They speak about the institute’s work, his vision and moving forward.