Numerous Hampton Roads organizations have planned events and charity efforts in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Even during the height of racial segregation in the 1960s, Dr. King envisioned a world where his kids' would not be judged by the color of their skin.

Events honoring King will occur across the nation as many in the U.S. observe the peaceful transfer of power in the capital.

Dad would say that we must learn nonviolence — or we may face nonexistence,” Martin Luther King III tells Capital B.

Arizona didn't celebrate Martin Luther King Day until 1993, a decade after it became a federal holiday. Here's how the Super Bowl played a role.

Callies' father, Reverend Raymond A. Callies, Sr., is credited with starting the Martin Luther King Jr. Day March in San ...

Texas officially recognized MLK Day in 1991. Today, it remains the only federal holiday designated as a national day of ...

It's an easy decision, for me. Martin Luther King Jr. Day honors service, not self-gratification.

On the evening of April 3, 1968, the day before he was assassinated, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke to Memphis sanitation ...

I’m using the arts of civil and human rights in the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr. and Stevie Wonder to block out the ...

In 1983, about 20 years after King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, legislation for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day cleared Congress, and President Ronald Reagan signed it.