More than most years, 2018 will be a year filled with remembrances of Martin Luther King Jr. because in it falls the 50th anniversary of King’s assassination.

One of King's most important legacies was his advocacy of civil disobedience as a strategy for resisting injustice. In 2022, I wrote a Martin Luther King Day post addressing some common ...

In lieu of that practical inconvenience, the mobbish company took the matter into their own hands, rejecting the very peaceful, intellectually fortified methods of Martin Luther King Jr., in whose ...

Martin Luther King, one of the country’s most famous advocates for pacifism, became one of its most famous victims of gun violence fifty years ago today.

Fifty years ago today, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis. ... here are five times that civil disobedience has made a difference since King’s death 50 years ago.

During the protests this spring in Egypt, a civil-rights-era comic book weaving the tale of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolent resistance movement found a fresh audience with the young ...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and Singer Joan Baez in a Special On Civil Disobedience: Baez Recalls When King Visited Her in Prison, and We Play a Rare Recording of King’s Remarks.

Martin Luther King and Gandhi Weren’t the Only Ones Inspired By Thoreau’s ‘Civil Disobedience’ Thoreau’s essay became a cornerstone of 20th-century protest ...

This year is the 50th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s decision to violate an injunction forbidding him to pray, sing or march in public in Birmingham, Ala. On Good Friday 1963 ...

Martin Luther King Jr Day was first celebrated in 1986 and falls on the third Monday in January, close to King's birthday on January 15th. 10) Almost 1,000 streets in the U.S. are named after MLK ...