Martin Luther King, Jr., Prayer meeting, 1956 “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sewell added that he thinks Bernice King is mad about him praying at Trump’s inauguration because she and her brother, Martin Luther King III, have been outspoken critics of the president and ...

(KSWO) - On the morning of Jan. 18, the Lawton chapter of the NAACP hosted a Prayer Breakfast at the ... The event aims to recognize not only Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life and legacy ...

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 ...

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, ...