At the time of his killing in 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. had become the proverbial prophet without honor in his own land. A survey by the Harris Poll found that the 39-year-old civil rights ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is approaching quickly – Monday, Jan. 15 — and this year, the federal holiday falls on the actual birthday of the celebrated civil rights leader who was assassinated ...

In an interview published by NPR’s Book of the Day podcast on Jan. 3, writer Jonathan Eig, who authored the biography 'King: A Life,' said that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was "a protest leader ...

The Trump administration has released more than 200,000 pages of records from the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from the civil rights leader’s family. The records have been under a court seal since 1977 after the FBI turned them over to the National Archives and Records Administration.