MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

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The quest by a civil rights pioneer to have her arrest record wiped clean after nearly 70 years after she protested racial segregation has raised the possibility of similar bids to clear the names of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. in Alabama.

Rev. Jesse Jackson was discharged from a rehab hospital Wednesday after receiving successful treatment for Covid-19 and Parkinson’s disease. 

“For every step towards progress, there’s always backlash.” Those words are from Doctor Bernice King, the youngest child of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King. Her father’s message is still so relevant today. NBC Bay Area’s Marcus Washington spoke to her about that, along with voting rights and her thoughts on our country right...

Juneteenth National Independence Day is the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983.

Watch the ninth episode of Race in America: The Conversation that aired on Jan. 18, 2021, on Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday.

Johnnie R. Turner, a former Tennessee state representative, talks about her experience with implicit segregation on buses and public spaces even after courts have ruled to desegregate.

Purcell Conway, a civil rights activist from St. Augustine, Florida, talks about the watershed moments that led to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and why it’s still not the end of the fight for racial equity in the United States.

Dr. Albert Gaskins talk about the movement to open a Philadelphia boarding school, Gerard College, to Black students – a movement that drew figures like Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to the cause.

Dr. Albert Gaskins recalls his experience traveling between Washington, D.C. and Virginia as a child, and why he bucked the expectation for Black riders to sit at the back of the bus.

Dr. Edward S. Cooper, Martin Luther King Jr.’s former physician, talks about growing up under his family’s medical legacy.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s son says one of the biggest lesson he learned from his parents was the importance of loving yourself. Martin Luther King III joined LX News to talk about his father’s legacy as a civil rights trailblazer and as a dad.

In a story January 18, 2021, about the inauguration, The Associated Press erroneously reported that 200,000 small flags displayed on the National Mall were placed there to honor the nearly 400,000 Americans killed in the coronavirus pandemic

Watch the first part of the ninth episode of Race in America: The Conversation that aired on Jan. 18, 2021, on Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday.

The pandemic added a new challenge to honoring Dr. King this year. While the events of the last eight months, from a racial reckoning to the election of the first Black woman vice president added significance to the day. Pete Suratos reports.

The annual celebration of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in his hometown in Atlanta is calling for renewed dedication to nonviolence following a turbulent year

For many, Civil Rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. is still best known for his “I Have A Dream” speech at the 1963 March on Washington. But Emory University’s political science professor Andra Gillespie says Dr. King’s legacy is more complex and significant than those inspirational words. She joined LX News to talk about the uncomfortable conversations Americans still need...

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the entire nation pauses in remembrance of the Civil Rights icon. But did you know it took nearly 32 years of fighting for the day to become a federal holiday? NBCLX breaks down the events that led to a national celebration in honor of Dr. King.

“MLK/FBI,” which IFC Films will release in theaters and on-demand Friday, chronicles one of the darkest chapters in the bureau’s history: the yearslong surveillance and harassment of King. Where others saw a leader of the highest order, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI saw a suspect — a potential communist and a threat to white America.

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