Lerone Martin’s new book offers fascinating insight into the civil rights icon’s younger years ...

Before Lerone Martin joined Stanford in 2022 as director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute, he ...

Lerone Martin's book follows the civil rights leader through childhood, escaping Jim Crow life working in Connecticut and ...

At 15, Martin Luther King Jr. joined a work expedition to a Connecticut tobacco farm. The experience was life changing.

Civil Rights activist and Baptist minister Martin Luther King, Jr., is most remembered for his use of nonviolence and civil ...

Every January, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, is observed on the third Monday. King Jr., who would have turned 95 in 2024, was ...

Monday marks Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Below is a transcript of his celebrated "I Have a Dream" speech, delivered on Aug. 28, 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. NPR's Talk of the Nation ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — April 4 marks one of the darkest days in American history. It was on this day in 1968 that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in ...

The annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Service, held February 24 to commemorate Black History Month, brought colleagues together from Jefferson Abington and Jefferson Lansdale hospitals ...

St. Louis readers will have a chance to hear directly from one of the country’s foremost Martin Luther King Jr. scholars when Dr. Lerone Martin visits the Clark Family Branch on Saturday, May 9. The ...