BLACK MOUNTAIN – Music rang through St. James Episcopal Church in Black Mountain Feb. 8 as Swannanoa Valley residents gathered for the 35th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Prayer Gathering. The ...

The Meridian-Lauderdale County branch of the NAACP held its 40th annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Junior Prayer Breakfast at the newly restored Frank Cochran Center. Representative Charles Young ...

The fact that slaves were sold in St. Augustine isn't in dispute; in 1827, the young New England writer Ralph Waldo Emerson passed through and saw a slave auction in full swing. When King came in 1964 ...

The legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. lives on 56 years after his untimely death. Dr. King, a powerful speaker and civil rights activist, showed perseverance in the face of racism and ...

Tickets are on sale for the 36th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship and Prayer Breakfast taking place in January in Wichita Falls, according to a media release from the city. A native ...

Eig said the “watering down” of King’s radical message is intentional, noting that King’s close friend Harry Belafonte believed the national holiday was designed to destroy King’s power — the holiday ...

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 ...

Michael King Jr was born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15, 1929. His father, Michael King Sr, and mother, Alberta King, grew up involved in the church. Alberta’s father was a minister and Michael Sr ...

Historian Vicki Crawford was one of the first scholars to focus on women’s roles in the civil rights movement. Her 1993 book, ...