Civil rights leader Reverend Martin Luther King Credit: Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Martin Luther King Jr., the Nobel Peace Prize–winning leader of the civil rights movement who helped ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - Security will be tight throughout downtown Memphis on Wednesday as thousands of people come together at the National Civil Rights Museum to remember a solemn anniversary.

In just a few months after dr. King's assassination, his widow Coretta King continued his legacy by founding The King Center. Their youngest daughter Bernice is the Center’s current CEO. Martin Luther ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The front page of the Deseret News on April 5, 1968, the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Tennessee. Editor’s ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson died on Feb. 17, 2026, at the age of 84. The Commercial Appeal is republishing some stories from Jackson's various visits to Memphis. This story originally published on April 4, ...

Monday, Jan. 19 is the time people across the U.S. remember and honor slain civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. King, the country’s most visible advocate for voting and civil rights, was ...

Beneath the weight of history and memory, Atlanta paused this weekend to honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 58 years after his assassination. At the King Center's Freedom Plaza ...

Civil rights leader and two-time presidential candidate Rev. Jesse Jackson has died at the age of 84. Jackson worked alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and was present at his assassination in 1968.