This Juneteenth we need to discard the caricatures of King that we so often see and learn from what he actually did and ...

Celebrated annually on June 19 across the US, Juneteenth commemorates the announcement of the abolition of slavery in Texas and the nation’s “second” Independence Day.Juneteenth – which was recognised ...

Police said shots were fired Saturday afternoon in the area of 150 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. The post Boston police seek suspect after shots fired in Roxbury appeared first on Boston.com.

I implore those exercising their right to peaceful assembly to indeed follow the lead of one king: Martin Luther King, Jr.

(CNN) — Here is a look at Juneteenth, the oldest known US celebration of the end of slavery. On June 19, 1865, over two and a ...

Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis ... he gave a speech at the Mason Temple Church and was killed the next day. James Earl Ray was convicted of King's ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The post, which includes a years-old clip from a broadcast from the Russian television network RT, accumulated more than 500 shares within two days. The video racked up ...

Tragically, Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated in 1968 in Tennessee, where he had given a speech the day before. He was standing on the balcony his hotel when he was shot. James Earl Ray was ...

The Inland Empire came together Monday, Jan. 20, to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day, with events that included a walk through Riverside. Riverside-area residents joined for the 30th Annual Dr ...

The federal government shuts down on the third Monday of every January for the day to honor Martin Luther King Jr. This year, that day is Jan. 20. The holiday in his honor is timed to honor King ...

Martin Luther King Jr. leads the Walk to Freedom through downtown Detroit on June 23, 1963. MLK Day will be observed on Jan. 20. Bettmann Archive The first holiday of the year was just a couple of ...

An estimated quarter of a million people came to Washington D.C. on a sun-filled day to march for jobs and civil rights. The peaceful protest culminated with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr ...