Jonathan Eig, author of the biography ‘King: A Life,’ spoke about the late civil rights leader on a Jan. 3 episode of NPR’s ‘Book of the Day’ podcast Martin Luther King Jr. didn’t originally set out ...

One of the facts about Martin Luther King Jr. that most people are unaware of: His birth certificate reads Michael King, an ode to his father, a former pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.

Seventy years after his groundbreaking airport survey, Charles Diggs Jr.’s fight for travel equality gets its first full biography ...

In February 1957, the Alabama Court of Appeals upheld her 1955 bus arrest conviction for violating segregation rules that ...

Rosa Parks was a Black civil rights activist, born on Feb. 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. She became known as the “mother of ...

Seventy years ago this past Monday, the American people witnessed a defining moment in American history, a moment of defiance, dignity and courage that changed the nation and the world.

The son of Martin Luther King Jr. says he's "beyond disappointed" by the National Park Service's decision to end free ...

This Juneteenth we need to discard the caricatures of King that we so often see and learn from what he actually did and believed. With protests mounting across the country to stop ICE and the Trump ...

Martin has spent more than two decades working across engineering, consulting and defense programs, Vibrint said Tuesday. He started his career as an engineer within the Department of Defense and ...

CONYERS, Ga. — A Conyers Police Department lieutenant is on administrative leave and faces a charge of theft by deception. According to a release from CPD, Lt. Jesus Cadena was arrested after a ...

John Kevin King of La Habra Heights, California, passed away peacefully on November 5, 2025. He was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and was a devoted husband, father, grandfather, and friend. John earned his ...

New artist of the year nominee Stephen Wilson Jr. will play twice during Wednesday's CMA Awards — and both performances have a connection to author Stephen King. One performance will be his cover of ...