Martin Luther King Jr

Trump Advocates For Public Service On MLK Day, But Spends It At Mar-A-Lago Resort

5:24pm January 15, 2018

by Vanessa Romo

Past presidents have honored the civil rights leader's birthday by helping out at libraries or homeless shelters but Preisdent Trump chose to spend the day at his Florida resort.

A statue depicting Confederate Gen. and former Georgia Gov. John Brown Gordon on horseback outside the Georgia Statehouse in Atlanta earlier this month. Gordon was also reputed to be a leader of the Ku Klux Klan.

Martin Luther King Jr. Statue To Join Confederates At Georgia's Capitol

5:24am August 28, 2017

by Johnny Kauffman

King is the first African-American to be memorialized on the state Capitol grounds, where monuments to Confederate generals and segregationists stand.

Trading Races, a new game by Kenyatta Forbes, asks players to talk about what it means to be black.

Arts

A New Card Game Asks, 'Who's Blacker?'

1:59pm March 16, 2017

by Leah Donnella

What does it mean to be black? What does it mean to be blacker?

Civil rights leader and Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., delivers remarks in front of a freedom bell during the "Let Freedom Ring" commemoration event in 2013.

Trump Attacks Civil Rights Hero Lewis As 'All Talk' After He Questions His Legitimacy

8:07pm January 14, 2017

by Jessica Taylor

The Georgia Democratic congressman said in an interview Friday he didn't view Trump as a "legitimate president" amid reports that Russian cyberattacks had intended to influence the elections.

Tuskegee Airman, Martin Luther King Jr. Bodyguard Dies at 93

6:05pm September 05, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

Dabney Montgomery served as a ground crewman with the Tuskegee Airman in Italy in World War II. He joined the civil rights movement when he came home, and protected King during the march from Selma.

A judge on Monday approved a settlement of a legal dispute among the children of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. (pictured in 2006, from left to right: Dexter Scott King, Bernice King, Martin Luther King III.). The dispute was over selling the

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Legal Dispute Ends Over Martin Luther King Jr.'s Nobel Medal And Bible

6:02pm August 15, 2016

by Jason Slotkin

A judge's order ends a disagreement over two of the civil rights leader's treasured possessions. King's sons Martin III and Dexter Scott King wanted to sell them. Daughter Bernice King was opposed.

After speaking (or, more often, shouting) their lines, the students run back to congratulatory teachers.

Fifth Graders Revisit King's 'Dream' Speech At The Lincoln Memorial

2:24pm January 18, 2016

Students from Watkins Elementary School in Washington, D.C., gathered to honor the civil rights leader.

David Oyelowo stars as Joe "Lightning" Little in Red Tails.

Arts

In 'Selma,' British Actor Brings Outsider's Perspective To MLK

3:00pm February 05, 2015

by Bilal Qureshi

David Oyelowo talks about playing Martin Luther King Jr. in the Oscar-nominated film Selma — as well as the LBJ controversy, slavery and how he learned about what it's like to be black in America.

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Elspeth Ventresca, center, and the rest of Carolyn Barnhardt's prekindergarten class at John Eaton Elementary School wear the crowns they made to celebrate Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday.

What Does Martin Luther King Jr.'s Legacy Look Like To A 5-Year-Old?

12:07pm January 19, 2015

by Joanne Levine

Teachers all over the country are finding ways to talk about the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. In one Washington, D.C., classroom, the lessons about race come alive.

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