Marietta College kicked off a week of celebrations to honor the life and legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement Saturday with a presentation by student leaders who visited historic civil rights sites in Montgomery,

It will be read in its entirety next week at Augustana University as part of its Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations. “Our core values around community service and Christianity really speak to MLK’s vision and philosophy,” said Nathan Quinn, director of student engagement at Augustana.

Who was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr? King was a revered civil rights and social justice advocate who sought racial equality during the modern U

These profound words were delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on March 8, 1965, during his speech in Selma, Alabama ... Each year, MLK Jr. Day is on the third Monday of January.

The US will honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on MLK Day, recognized as a National Day of Service. King, known for his role in the Civil Rights movement and his advocacy for nonviolence, is celebrated for his efforts to end segregation and racism.

On 7/29/15 in Columbia SC, James Taylor was joined onstage by Charleston choir Lowcountry Voices. Together, they sang “Shed a Little Light” in memory of the victims of the Charleston shooting and their families.

Jan. 20 is Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States. Here's what's open and closed during the national holiday.

Former Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White was one of King's proteges. He writes about following King's example and committing to public service and volunteer work.

It took a long political effort to make the King Holiday commemoration a federal law. ATLANTA — The MLK Day holiday is marked annually as a day of service and remembrance of the struggle for justice, equality and the Beloved Community that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made his life's work.

Sooner or later all the people of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood.

I am a civil rights baby, born into agitating when my mother sat down at a whites-only lunch counter in Huntsville, Alabama, in 1962, with me, her four-month-old infant in her lap — and following her arrest,