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Yolanda Renée King is the sole grandchild of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King—and is just as passionate. She ...
Following the Black Lives Matter Memorial Garden's removal from Cal Anderson Park, a new garden will come to Martin Luther King Jr. Civil Rights Memorial Park.
Orange High School teacher LeShun “Ship” Collins will receive the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Award from the National Education Association at its Human and Civil Rights Awards program ...
The memorial would replace an earlier monument of King at the corner of Reading Road and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. That monument, dedicated in 1987, was moved to MLK Park in North Avondale in ...
William Austin Smith, inspired by King’s legendary “I Have a Dream” speech, will perform each evening at 9 p.m. during the fountain show at Martin Luther King, Jr. Park.
The second of two defendants charged with taking parts of the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial in Denver’s City Park pleaded guilty and was sentenced Friday to jail and three years’ probation.
Martin Luther King Jr Memorial, portrait of the civil rights leader carved in granite, dedicated by President Barack Obama in 2011. | Shutterstock Martin Luther King (MLK) Jr. Day 2025 marks the ...
The U.S. is marking Martin Luther King Day, a federal holiday. But in Alabama and Mississippi, it's also Robert E. Lee Day, in honor of the Confederate general.
Six months later, King responded that he had the time to speak for one day on campus. Last week, his words returned to Memorial Church, this time projected onto a 16-foot-wide movie screen.
Dr Martin Luther King Jr speaking before crowd of 25,000 Selma To Montgomery, Alabama civil rights marchers, in front of Montgomery, Alabama state capital building on March 25, 1965 in Montgomery ...
On rare occasions, Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Inauguration Day coincide. Former President Barack Obama’s inauguration for his second term fell on Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013.
Will kids have school? Who killed Martin Luther King Jr.? James Earl Ray, a 40-year-old who had been in and out of prison, confessed to killing King and was sentenced to 99 years in jail for it.