Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a powerful speech on justice at SMU's packed McFarlin Auditorium in 1966.

For our complete Black History Month coverage, click here. When he was born Jan. 15, 1929, Martin Luther King Jr.’s name was Michael. It’s the name originally on his birth certificate. He was named ...

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The train pulled into Washington D.C.’s Union Station; before we said goodbye, one of my seatmates introduced me to a fellow pilgrim from New York City headed to the march: Emily Whitfield, who ...

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Martin Luther King Jr. was one of America’s most transformational leaders. His impact on the American Civil Rights Movement ...

GODFREY - Students and community members gathered at Lewis and Clark Community College for the annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration.On Thurs ...

Fikes’ deep roots in the Civil Rights Movement date from the 1960s. As a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating ...

Artwork and speeches dedicated to Martin Luther King Jr. were on display Thursday as University of Missouri Student Affairs held a celebration of his life at the Bond Life Sciences Center.

Bernice A. King urged people to get her "Daddy's Dream right." Here's why experts think this part of the civil rights leader's famed speech often gets misrepresented.

According to the King Institute's website and the speech's entry in Volume 5 of "The Papers of Martin Luther King Jr." book series, the speech "was transcribed for publication in an anniversary ...

Why? Because we are all “interwoven and interconnected” in what King called a “garment of destiny,” said Reynolds in her keynote address to the 25th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Unity ...