The Meridian-Lauderdale County branch of the NAACP held its 40th annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Junior Prayer Breakfast at ...

People in Choctaw County put on their walking shoes to honor Martin Luther King Jr. The community walked from downtown ...

Evangelist Franklin Graham delivered a prayer highlighting God s faithfulness at the inauguration of President Donald Trump ...

Every year, Martin Luther King Jr. Day brings many celebrations to the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Take a look at this year’s ...

MLK Jr. Day is a federal holiday, so most government offices across the nation are closed and the Postal Service won't be ...

Coretta Scott King and numerous other women who stood with Martin Luther King Jr. were committed activists in their own right ...

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Reginald Dwayne Betts went from being a 16-year-old facing a nine-year prison sentence to a MacArthur “genius,” an ...

The U.S. is marking Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday set aside to honor the life of the civil rights icon, on ...

"We’ve got to organize so effectively and so well and engage in such powerful, creative protest that there will not be a power in the world that can stop us and that can afford to ignore us" ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Yet, Alabama and Mississippi will instead celebrate Robert E. Lee, a symbol of the confederacy and its ...

It took a long political effort to make the King Holiday commemoration a federal law. ATLANTA — The MLK Day holiday is marked annually as a day of service and remembrance of the struggle for justice, ...