(Shmuel Thaler - Santa Cruz Sentinel) A federal holiday since 1983, participants in the Martin Luther King Jr. Day march sang songs, blew horns, flew flags and pounded drums in the crisp winter ...

Despite a time of sorrow for the Santa Monica area, the community still gathered together in remembrance and celebration of one of humanity’s greatest leaders, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. At the ...

1968 at just 39 years old Bettmann Archive/Getty To many of us, Martin Luther King Jr. was a mega-force for the Civil Rights movement — a prolific speaker whose talent for oration and passion ...

Before Martin Luther King Jr. led marches, gave speeches, and peacefully fought to change the world, he was just a kid ...

Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Martin Luther King Jr. didn’t originally set out to become a civil rights activist, according to his biographer. On a Jan. 3 episode of NPR’s Book of the ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday honoring the life and birthday of an icon of America's civil rights movement, ...

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. He chose that location in part to honor President Abraham Lincoln as “a ...

WATCH: Biden honors Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy on his final full day as president Joe Biden is spending his final full day in office Sunday in South Carolina, a state that holds special ...

SANTA CRUZ — More than 1,000 community ... to commemorate the life and legacy of civil rights champion Martin Luther King Jr. “In such a time as this, there’s work we have to do,” said ...