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

Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968. King was a tireless advocate for equality and is best known for his message of peaceful ...

Duke Divinity School will hold a Service of the Word in collaboration with the Office of Black Church Studies for the 2025 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. worship service. Dr. Cheryl Sanders, professor of ...

I teach a course now at Duke University on environmental justice ... CHAVIS: As some would say, my famous quote from Dr Martin Luther King, Jr, my favorite quote. I was the youth coordinator ...

Kennedy, confirmed plots to assassinate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as early as 1964 ... was likened to future prominent Klansman David Duke. He considered himself a gentleman, was soft-spoken ...

Duke University Chapel. 3 pm. January 19: 40th Annual University/Community Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Celebration, William and Ida Friday Center, Grumman Auditorium. 5:00 pm Coffee and ...

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 ...

MLK Day is a federal holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., encouraging reflection on ... Bishop Barber went on to earn a master of divinity from Duke University and a doctorate from ...

The only grandchild of Martin Luther King Jr., Yolanda was born to Martin Luther King III and Arndrea Waters King on May 25, 2008. Yolanda didn't get a chance to meet her grandparents, MLK Jr. and ...

"I believe it shows the commitment that we have in the community, to what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood for," said Bishop Dennis Lyons, an MLK Motorcade Coordinator. A city-wide church ...

It was Martin Luther King Jr. who had the dream ... and the superstar phenomenon of Sidney Poitier in movies," said Michael Dennis, a Philadelphia filmmaker and film promoter.