Martin Luther King Jr.

President Joe Biden is calling for action to end the type of “hate-fueled violence” that authorities say motivated a white man to fatally shoot three Black people at a Florida store over the weekend.

Thousands have gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in the nation’s capital to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s iconic ‘I have a dream’ speech helped set the tone for the March on Washington and generations to come. News4’s Shawn Yancy spoke with Martin Luther King III about whether his father’s dream has been realized.

The 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom is still considered one of the greatest and most consequential racial justice demonstrations in U.S. history.

Thousands of people will gather on the National Mall on the anniversary of the March on Washington. News4’s Joseph Olmo reports.

Sixty years ago, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. issued his resounding call for racial harmony that set off decades of push and pull toward progress. The historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom remains a marker by which progress is measured. But that progress — namely civil and voting rights legislation passed in the mid-1960s — teeters precariously...

An Alabama home where Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders planned several marches, is moving to a Michigan museum where it will eventually be open to the public.

Hear from the voices of the women and men who marched to Washington for racial equality in 1963.

Amber Payne, a journalist and the film’s co-director, spoke with News4 moments before the film’s premiere in D.C. 

America has honored Martin Luther King Jr. with a federal holiday for nearly four decades yet still hasn’t fully embraced and acted on the lessons from the slain civil rights leader, his youngest daughter said Monday. The Rev. Bernice King, who leads The King Center in Atlanta, said leaders, especially politicians, too often cheapen her father’s legacy into a “comfortable...

President Joe Biden has made a historical pilgrimage to what he calls “America’s freedom church” to mark Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday.

The fourth annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Oratory Competition took place Friday, celebrating cultural diversity but also spotlighting talented Chicago Public Schools students. NBC 5’s LeeAnn Trotter reports.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which is observed on the third Monday of January each year, this year falls on Jan. 16.

The actor’s parents — Betty Lou Bredemus and Walter Grady Roberts — became good friends with the civil rights leaders in the 1960s.