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Author and journalist Jonathan Eig discussed the life of Martin Luther King Jr., in the first comprehensive biography of the civil rights leader in over 30 years. The Jimmy Carter Presidenti…

Martin Luther King III commemorated the 56th anniversary of his father’s April 4, 1968, assassination in Memphis at the Lorraine Motel at the National Civil Rights Museum.

In Indianapolis on April 4th, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy announced to a waiting crowd that Martin Luther King, Jr. had been assassinated. Historian Ray Boomhower recounted the events leading up…

Authors Jonathan Eig ("King: A Life"), Antonia Hylton ("Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum") and Edwin Raymond ("An Inconvenient Cop") discussed issues of systemic racism as wel…

CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite announces the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, and President Lyndon Johnson makes a statement.

University of Texas Austin’s Peniel Joseph discusses the lives and legacy of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.

Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis defended her handling of the 2020 election inference case during remarks at Big Bethel AME Church in Atlanta, as part of the congregation’s Martin Luthe…

“In 2024, where exactly is America in our fight for freedom,” asked Vice President Kamala Harris during her remarks at the NAACP South Carolina State Conference honoring Martin Luther King J…

Reverend Al Sharpton, founder and president of the National Action Network, hosted his organization’s annual breakfast honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Among those in attendance and receiving…

The American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., hosted a forum looking back six decades at the August 28, 1963, March on Washington and Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream” speec…

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) led a bipartisan group of senators in a reading of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”

President Biden volunteered at Philabundance, a hunger relief organization in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for the third consecutive year in a row in observance of the Martin Luther King Jr. …

Journalist Jonathan Eig examined the life of Martin Luther King Jr., including recently declassified FBI documents about the civil rights leader. This was part of the 2023 Gaithersburg Book …

Authors Laura Meckler (Dream Town) and Jonathan Eig (King-A Life) discussed racial equity and the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. This event took place at the 2023 Miami Book Fair.

Marc Morial, the National Urban League president, joined a discussion with religious leaders, theologians, and civil rights advocates on the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington, host…

The American Enterprise Institute hosted a forum looking back six decades at the August 28, 1963, March on Washington and Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream” speech. Historian Taylor B…

Advocates gathered to honor the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Speakers included public officials, businesspersons, entertainers, uni…

Kiana Cox, senior researcher at the Pew Research Center, talked about the center’s report on racial equality and Dr. Martin Luther King’s legacy on the 60th Anniversary of his famed “I Have …

On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Museum historian Ryan Jones of National Civil Rights Museum talked abou…

The National Action Network (NAN) held its annual breakfast to honor and celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Several people were honored for their work on civil rights including former Hou…