Future generations may mull the divine meaning of Barack Obama’s celebration and pageantry taking place on the very day set aside to honor Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights leader gunned ...

Monday's inaugural may be President Barack Obama's big day, but Martin Luther King Jr. will loom large over the festivities. A quirk in the calendar pushed Obama's public swearing-in onto the ...

President Barack Obama (right) and President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff visit the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, with National Park Service National Mall Superintendent Karen Laura Cucurullo in ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. tells a news conference in Atlanta on July 27, ... Barack Obama has always seen himself as a member of the "Joshua generation" in the fight for civil rights in ...

Former President Barack Obama these high schoolers to emulate the work of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in a new video.

If Martin Luther King Jr. had been allowed to live out a normal life—if he hadn’t been cut down by an assassin’s bullet before he even turned 40—he might’ve lived to see today: He might ...

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day a year after the first African-American president took office, Americans appear to have mixed views about the impact of President Obama's election on race relations.

Michelle Obama Honors Martin Luther King Jr. by Asking Americans to Register to Vote "By sitting out, we're allowing others to make decisions for us," said the former first lady By ...

Former President Barack Obama took time out of his post-presidential life to reflect on the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 50 years after his ...