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Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a U.S. holiday and national day of service. It took a long time for the country to get there It was first proposed four days after King's 1968 assassination outside a ...

Investigators in Tennessee say a fire that severely damaged a historic Black church that served as the headquarters for a ...

The NBA legend writes about the importance of protest for social justice in new book, "We All Want to Change the World." ...

A historic Black church in downtown Memphis that was the organizing point for Martin Luther King Jr.’s final campaign in 1968 caught fire early Monday morning and suffered significant damage.