Born less than five years apart in Georgia, the late President Jimmy Carter and Martin Luther King Jr. both came up during ... regardless of what his family background may have been.

Martin Luther King Jr. remains one of the most powerful moral voices in American history, known for his unyielding ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Amid everything else on his desk — the Iran hostage crisis, domestic economic turmoil, the Soviet ...

Carter’s vow to restore America’s virtue after the shame of Vietnam and Watergate with a transparent, good-government approach ... He didn’t befriend civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.’s ...

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Martin Luther King Jr. left a blueprint for Americans to face their fears and use the power of community and civic action to ...

As Martin Luther King Jr. Day falls on Inauguration Day, biographer Patrick Parr looks at what civil rights leader would have ...

The Rev. Robert L. Trimble of Yakima grew up in the South and was a contemporary of the late Martin Luther King Jr.

It was first proposed four days after King’s 1968 assassination outside a Memphis motel. It took 15 years until it became a ...

In 1963, during the height of the Civil Rights Movement, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and his colleagues at the Southern ...

This year Jan. 20 will be both Donald Trump's Inauguration Day and Martin Luther King Jr. Day. According to USA TODAY, this coincidence has occurred only three times in the past, and they were ...

January 20 marks Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday that honors the life and legacy of the American civil rights icon who was assassinated in 1968. The holiday didn’t come ...