As the president wages a war on DEI and threatens to roll back other civil rights efforts, the King family is continuing the ...

(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 ...

The peaceful protest culminated with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and delivering a stirring speech that would forever change America. In August as ...

Only once before since it became a federal holiday has Martin Luther King Jr. Day fallen on the same day as a presidential inauguration. That was in 1997, when Bill Clinton took the oath of office ...

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 ...

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 ...