The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington D.C., as seen on Dec. 2, 2018. (Brett Bowers via Getty Images) Let’s visit one of Martin Luther King Jr.’s speeches. No, not that one. I’m talking ...

A congregation on Chicago's Near West Side gathered over the weekend to commemorate 60 years since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The letter in Wichita shows an early draft that might have informed some of the civil rights leader's most famous speeches. Nestled in the archives of the Museum of World Treasures in Wichita, there’s ...

Editor's Note: This story was orignially published on npr.org on Feb. 7, 2024. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, is so ...

When the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stepped to the podium at the Lincoln Memorial on a stifling hot August day in 1963, he faced a cast of characters who also knew how to command a stage. Most now ...

In 1965, three months after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. declared from the steps of the state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, that the aim of the civil rights movement was no more and no less than ...

A person walks past a mural of Martin Luther King Jr. during the celebration of MLK Community Service Day in Washington D.C., days ahead of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, U.S. January ...

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., 1956, Smithsonian's National Museum of American History In this photo, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks at Rankin Chapel at Howard University in Washington, D.C.

The draft of MLK's most famous speech lacked its most famous lines. The 'I Have a Dream' part was suggested by Mahalia Jackson as King neared the end of his 1963 speech at the Lincoln Memorial. As the ...

Rev. Al Sharpton, Martin Luther King III and Arndrea Waters King say the Aug. 28 march is a response to ...

“Our father lived a life of conscience,” his family said in a statement ...